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Teachers & SchoolsBody Imagery
Sure, this poem is a metaphor for love, but it's rife with physical actions and the body parts that perpetrate and are affected by those actions. The body imagery helps lend a sense of the very real threat of violence. When we're confronted with the fist, its knuckles, and the lips and eyes that fist bruises, we can't help thinking that the abuse in the poem is anything but metaphorical.