I'm not so great at "Figuring Out Metaphors"

In his work titled Figuring Out Metaphors, John R. Searle questions why do people use metaphors rather than saying what they really mean. He also questions the fact that some metaphors most people would understand and some are more difficult. For example, Sam is a pig: this metaphor probably means that Sam is an untidy person. However, if we said Sally is a prime number between 17 and 23, we would not know what the literal meaning of this metaphor is. 

I actually enjoy metaphors. I think it is a more creative way to say what we actually mean. Instead of saying, "Alicia is a young and beautiful girl," I could say "Alicia is the first ray of sunshine on a warm spring morning." Does it not have a better ring to it? Metaphors are just one more figurative language device to add embellishment to literature, even though they can be hard to understand at times.  

My Words On "On the Words in Poerty"

In his piece, "On the Words in Poerty", Dylan Thomas exclaims his passion for words. He describes how he loves the words and "the words alone." He states that he does not really care for the significance or what the words symbolize. He says he just loves the way words sound. Thomas uses a few figurative language devices to describe his passion for words such as: parallelism,  metaphors, and personification. He exclaims, "these words were, to me, as the notes of bells, the sounds of musical instruments, the noises of wind, sea, and rain...." As he goes on he says that words are just plain but once you structure them and make a pattern the beauty of the words just come to live.

I agree with Mr. Thomas's belief. Words are just words and can be as simple as can be. However, once you put words together you can create something so beautiful no matter if it is  a sentence, a paragraph, a page, or a whole story. It is the same for an artist. An artist can have an array of colors and when he puts them together he creates a iridescent painting that is full of color and life.

My Debut to Poetry: " Introduction to Poetry"

To begin with, poetry is not one of my strongest suits.  I actually only enjoy poetry when I actually understand it (which is not often).  I guess I have not been expose to poetry enough but by the looks of it (syllabus) I should start getting comfortable.  Not to mention our "awesome" Literature book that is as twice as fat the Bible.
However, I did enjoy this poem called Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins. I totally agree with the man who says that people should actually sit down and enjoy these meaningful poems. Instead of draining these poems until they are fully desiccated. Teachers, especially English teachers, make the students dissect every single phrase in a poem. Cutting up a poem into little pieces makes it harder to appreciate it as a whole.  That is what I think Mr. Collins is trying to say in this poem.
Also I really liked how he used all those metaphors to compare how it should be when reading a poem.  I really enjoyed the metaphor he used when people analyze a poem:

But all I they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.