Andrey's questions about poems (split from the intro thread)

[AndreyGaganov]

Sorry, I am at work right now, so I'll try to take on as many replies as possible during that time.

A metaphor's practical advantage is that it gets the emotional point across. Again, compare, "oh, the twin towers getting hit by an airplane, that made me feel very bad" to "oh, the twin towers getting hit by an airplane, felt like someone shot me".

Sounds like a simile than a metaphor. But even so, even if we did rephrase it as a metaphor, ... the delivery of an emotional point would make a lot of sense to me if the speaker in the poem is someone worth empathizing with.

By the look of it, the metaphor here in question does not seem to be used just to deliver an emotional point across, but to describe the magnitude of the pain to the best of the writer's ability.