The given line "How to Eat a Poem" is an example of a hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis, but is not meant to be taken literally. Here, it is exaggerated that a poem can be eaten. But if you take it literally, poems should not be eaten. It is not a metaphor nor simile because no comparison is made. Neither personification because it human characteristics are not attributed to it.
<span>When the Spaniard tried to leave Galveston island on their barge, they found a harsh and cold weather and the lack of food which made it difficult for them to overcome. Some of them could not survive this terrible situation because the hunger and the movements of the water made them collapsed, a few men were un unconscious. </span>
I believe<span> the setting of King Lear is as far removed from <span>Shakespeare's time.</span></span>
I don't think anyone can see the lines to read