ate encounter. The storm serves as a metaphor for how wild and impulsive the encounter was. Chopin also uses symbolism to create a strong impact with few words. She describes Calixtas bed as white with her sons bed along side her own (13). The color of Calixtas bed is a symbol of her purity. Chopin communicates the message that Calixta is not usually a sexually provocative woman through the color of her bed. She also delivers the message that either she and her husband do not have sex or do so very quietly and without passion by stating that her sons bed is in the same room. Through the use of metaphor and symbolism, Chopin is able to communicate various messages and deep meaning in a short story.Poetry also takes advantage of metaphor and symbolism to achieve deep levels of meaning in a short writing. Marge Piercy makes a strong statement on the conditioning of women to be feminine and submissive in a poem that seems to be about a plant. A Work of Artifice (p. 894) describes a bonsai tree (line 1) being trimmed by the gardener. The bonsai tree is, however, a metaphor for a woman. Piercy describes how the tree could have grown eighty feet tall (line 3) but a gardener pruned it (line 7) and now it stands only nine inches high (line 8). She illustrates how the gardener sculpts its branches and tells it that its the trees nature to be small and cozy, domestic and weak (lines 13-14). Piercy, an active feminist, is actually describing how society molds women. She is saying that from the day women are born, they are constantly told they have to pretty, weak, feminine and domestic. She says, one must begin very early (line 18) to teach a woman how to be a lady. Piercy communicates her strong message without ever mentioning the word woman. She accomplishes through the use of metaphor. Piercy uses the metaphor to deliver a powerful message in only a few lines. Her use of the bonsai tree as a metaphor for women also adds to the emotional streng...
