If to resort to accurate scientific definition, then the metaphor is a word or expression which is used in a figurative sense. With its help there are a lot of people, without knowing how to call any given phenomenon, feeling, desire or a thought, stated things, clear for others. What to do if you feel, but you cannot explain? Here then the person also resorts to use of a metaphor.
Love. What is it? At everyone definition of feeling of "love" always a miscellaneous. A soul rush, a state when there is a wish to sing when you cannot breathe. When for the sake of darling it is ready to be ready to do anything, to make anything for it it or for him. The love cannot be seen, touched or tasted, but each of us learns all its delights and disappointments over time. It is. The love in this case is also a metaphor which gained bigger sense with the name and value. Life. A word which can also be used as the metaphor accepting various values. Life as we understand it – an interval of time which lives the person from the birth to death. But, using this word as a metaphor, one may say, that Life – is a travel, with certain events, the purposes and results. It is possible to find also the third meaning of this remarkable word: Life – the book, the story about existence, about the road of the person which it already ran or is only going to pass. The book with achievements, acts and ideological representations. Very often metaphors meet in poetry, music and even painting. In poetry with their help stronger emotional coloring of their sense is added to initial words. In painting the metaphor is reached by assignment to certain objects of the qualities unusual for them. As a rule, forms of an object, its function, texture change. In music of a metaphor can be more difficult. In the basis this change of the general structure of composition, a habitual game on the tool, is change of rhythms and the sizes. Lyrics also become more saturated comparative characteristics. Here it is possible to think that the text in the song belongs to poetry, but it not so. The song as composition, consists of several parts: text, melody, structure and rhythm. For emergence of a musical metaphor any of the called points can be used. Sometimes one, sometimes all at once. To use a metaphor it is available to any person. It is only necessary to listen to the feelings and to have desire to share the thoughts with others. And when there will be difficulties on this matter, use a metaphor!