1.   For Kane a poetic metaphor became a literal truth.

2.   That we influence the world around us is not simply a poetic metaphor.

3.   It is characteristic of poetic metaphors that they are not susceptible to paraphrase, because of the freedom allowed to their interpreters.

4.   They do not exhibit the semantic indeterminacy characteristic of poetic metaphors.

5.   The context of literary interpretation -- for example, explicating a system of poetic metaphors -- demands that the text be open.

6.   He was telling his students about how poetic metaphors come from life, and he shared with them the few lines of the carol he had written.

7.   When my conversion occurred a few years later, I realized that Hawkins was communicating his uncompromising vision of dance through a form of poetic metaphor.