Look Up at the Trees When Your On Your Knees

The extended metaphor used in Four Skinny Trees is a comparison between the girl and how the four skinny trees barely stay alive. This metaphor uses foil and comparisons to create themes. In Four Skinny Trees the girl says "when i am to sad and too Skinny to keep keeping, then it is i look at the trees." This is an example of how the girl uses the trees to keep living and how she compares herself to their condition when she feels she can't go any further. The extended metaphor is then used to create 2 main themes of the poetic story which is "when you feel down look up to the ones doing better in your position," and "comparing yourself to others may help with your problems."The metaphor that makes up the whole poem is used to create this theme and to reflect the similarities that the girl and the 4 skinny trees have in common yet create a foil between them as well. The girl dislikes her life and wants a new one while the trees are desperate to keep their own. Having the girl be so low about her life make the trees look more willing to stay alive. It makes them look like hero's. Together foiling characters and comparisons between the characters help to develop multiple themes.