What I can do—I will— and Fame is a bee

In the “Before You Read” section of your textbook, you learned about metaphors and similes. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things. “My love is a rose” is a metaphor. A simile is also a figure of speech that compares to unlike things, but it uses like or as to compare them. “My love is like a rose” is a simile. On a sheet of paper, write down the metaphor in “What I can do—I will—” and the simile in “Fame is a bee.” Write a short paragraph explaining what these two figures of speech communicate in the two poems. Do you think they are interesting or would you have made different comparisons?