4/2/2023 0 Comments Night of the pale moon![]() To continue the idea of the moon being an eye, you might even say that it winks at you. This metaphor also personifies the moon, giving it human (or even god-like) qualities. So it feels like it’s an omnipresent object, looking down upon us all like Big Brother in 1984. Just about anyone in the world can look up at night and see the moon. The idea of the moon as an eye reminds us of the sense that it’s looking over us. Maybe it’s God’s crystal ball, or even our own – if we look long and hard at the moon, might it reveal something about ourselves or even our futures? 8. What I like about the metaphor of the moon as a crystal ball is that it is magical any mystical. You could picture someone flipped a coin and it got stick in mid-air, becoming the moon as we know it today. Can we talk about it flipping like a coin. But here, there is more that can be done. The roundness of the moon can again be employed in this situation where we talk about the moon as a coin – which of course is also circular. And if the stars behind are particularly bright, we could say it’s a boat floating in an luminescent ocean, perhaps. To continue this further, we might even say it’s a boat floating in a black metaphorical ocean. So we can say it floats – which relates the moon’s ability to seemingly hang in the sky to the ability of boats to float in the ocean. There seems to be no effect of gravity making it fall to the ground (although gravity does hold it close to earth). The third metaphor about the moon’s loneliness among a backdrop of blackness is the idea that it is ‘floating’. Or, you can spruce that up some more, with the saying: the moon is a lonely figure searching for friends in the sky. Here is an example: The moon is feeling lonely. A lonely figure searching for friendsĪnother way of referring to the fact that the moon is a solitary figure in the sky is to personify it – where personification is a type of metaphor that gives an object human qualities. It looks a bit like a pearl, and the blackness behind might be metaphorically constructed as an ocean. So, we can think of ways of talking about how solitary it is – such as saying it’s “a lone pearl in the black sea”. Sure, there are stars in the sky, but nothing that compares to the size and grandeur of the moon. There is an array of potential moon metaphors that involve the fact that the moon is a single large object in the sky. We might say that the moon is a billboard for our common humanity – which may mean that all of us look up and see the same moon, which is a testament to the fact we share the one planet. It may be cost prohibitive right now, but could you imagine the moon having a Pepsi or Coke logo slapped across it? While it can’t literally occur, we could turn this into a metaphor. On a night with a full moon, it looks like a shining plate that you could pluck out of the sky, give a wash, plate up, and eat the food right off it. One of the first things you might be able to relate the moon to is a dinner plate. ![]() ![]() Conclusion Metaphors that Describe the Moon 1. ![]()
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