Reflect on the passages above and your responses to them. compose a response to this questions: how does the use of metaphor bring to life or intensify whatever the author is describing? do you think metaphors enhance description or make them too difficult to understand? explain your response.

Andrew Marvell uses hyperbole as well as the metaphysical conceit in his poem To His Coy Mistress.

A clear example of hyperbole, or exaggeration, are the following lines:

       Love you ten years before the flood, (...)"

and

      Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; (...)"

what is exaggerated is the number of years