Symbols

Symbols:

Definition: Something that has the meaning and represents for something else that is visually.

Example:

The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned.

Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves gone.

The last of them now bank the house or have been burned.

None are left upon the trees or on the lawn.

Green and tall as ever it grew in spring the grass

Grows not too tall, will not be cut again this yea.

Geraniums in bloom behind the window glass

Are safe. Fall has fallen yet winter is not yet here.

How warm the late November sun although how wan.

The white house stands a symbol of fulfillment there,

Housing one old woman, a cat, and one old man

After abundance but before the earth is bare.

                (Symbol - Robert Francis)




Significance: Use symbols to compare two things together. Symbols help to represent something to show how much those things are alike. Symbols can also express a poet's feelings or attitude to someone or something.