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How  effectively  does  metaphor  contribute  to  Laurie  Lee’s  expression  of  
his  feelings  about  England  when  returning  home  from  abroad?  
 
One  successful  use  of  metaphor  within  ‘Home  From  Abroad’  is  the  continued  image  of  Kent  
as  a  female
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   The  act  of  kissing  is  done  by  people  and  so  therefore  
Kent  has  been  personified
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 This  dull  and  ordinary  image  seems  to  suggest  that  at  first  Lee  
is  sad  to  leave  behind  the  exotic  countries  he  has  visited
...
   
 
A  slightly  less  successful  use  of  metaphor  can  be  seen  in  stanza  three  with  the  phrase  
‘drowns  Chianti  in  a  dusky  stream’
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 The  ‘Chianti’  seems  to  be  representative  of  the  cultural  experience  Lee  
had  abroad
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 The  image  of  memories  fading  
makes  Lee’s  memories  of  abroad  seem  less  important  than  the  ‘landscape’  he  is  now  seeing,  
showing  he  is  in  fact  happy  to  return  home
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 The  flaw  within  
the  metaphor  is  that  ‘Chianti’  is  a  liquid,  therefore  it  cannot  be  drowned
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 If  
the  two  elements  do  not  fit  together  then  it  is  hard  for  the  reader  to  visualise  the  image  that  Lee  is  
trying  to  create  in  the  reader’s  mind
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 One  of  the  ineffective  
metaphors  within  ‘Home  From  Abroad’  can  be  seen  as  ‘hedges  choke  with  roses  fat  as  cream’
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 Whilst  Lee  creates  a  visual  image  for  the  reader  
within  the  metaphor  adding  to  the  description  of  the  poem  he  does  not  convey  emotion  ,  making  
the  metaphor  ineffective  at  providing  a  sense  of  Laurie’s  feelings
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 However,  some  metaphors  
merely  create  imagery  in  the  reader’s  mind  and  whilst  there  is  no  doubt  that  these  images  are  
beautiful  and  descriptive  they  are  not  effective  at  conveying  emotion  to  the  reader
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 However,  on  the  whole  Lee  uses  metaphors  well  to  make  clear  to  the  reader  his  
feelings  and  the  same  time  creates  a  descriptive  poem

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