Is this a metaphor?

Question

This were to be new made when thou art old,

And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

"blood warm" and "thou feel'st it cold" seem like metaphors to me but i'm not entirely sure.

Answer 1

The first line contains a kind of metaphor -- and a paradox as well.  Something (whatever "this" refers to) has the power to make us feel like we are "new made" or re-created when we are old.  It's a comparison between two unlike things -- a sense of increased energy or vitality and literally being recreated or remade --and therefore it's a metaphor.

The second line continues with another metaphor related to the increase of energy.  Yes, our blood is normally warm, as an earlier post points out, but the comparison is between warm blood and the uplift or sense of renewal in the first line.  Renewal doesn't literally warm the blood, but it feels LIKE it does.  (Also, if we feel we have more energy, we'll probably be more physically active and that WILL warm our blood!)  Hence, it's also a metaphor.

Answer 2

sounds like a metaphor to me

Answer 3

blood IS warm (in warm blooded creatures anyway) so that's not a metaphor.

Answer 4

Those aren't metaphors, they are descriptions. Metaphors do describe, but not how you think. They compare two similar things and blend them together. A simile would us words "like" or "as" but a metaphor says that one thing is another. For example, "the boy is a tall, strong tree" would be a metaphor. The boy isn't really a tree, he just is tall and strong like a tree. So metaphors say that one thing is another

but those two things have to be similar. And if it has "like" or "as" in it, it's a simile.  Here's more information on metaphors:

http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n26.htm

Answer 5

I DONT THINK IT IS