Which of the examples is a metaphor?

a) "i never learned which party was victorious"

b) "i left the woods for as good a reason as i went there"

c) "i did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world"

d) "he will put some new things behind"

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .