Similes And Metaphors In Women's Writing

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In the passage the author uses similes and metaphors of mystery and light vs dark to show his attraction to the women's stories. In the first couple of lines he uses metaphors to describe the road and the environment around him. He is very anxious to hear the old woman talk about her stories, he compares it to the shedding of skin. The women's stories are helped to be imagined by personification “shadows stood up and walked” (line 19).
The women's knowledge is compared to that of nature and where he lives. He wants to understand what is all around him, but he can't. So he relies on the woman and her vast knowledge as a sort of “Dictionary”. He states later in the poem that he “leaves were the libraries of the Caribbean” (line 16) showing he

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