In Chapter 5 of “Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry”, one of the rhetorical figures Jonathan Culler describes is metaphors, which are used to compare two things together, which can help the reader visualize what they’re reading.

There was a part in the poem “Diving Into The Wreck” by Adrienne Rich that included a metaphor, that being “the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth” This to me is a comparison between the real life and what we’re told about it, like in books/articles. We want to experience the wreck for ourselves, the wreck being real life, and the myth would be what we’ve been told about it, like we’ve been told in books/articles. We can’t fully understand what we’ve been told until we experience it for ourselves. Living through something is a completely different experience that reading about it, and you feel more emotions,

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