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"Keeping a nice secret is very hard to do, like holding your breath." He brings Doodle life through the example he sets and the motivation he provides, but he also brings about his death by pushing him too far beyond his limits.

#Metaphor for autumn trees full

The narrator is so ruled by pride that he has become this vine, full of both life and death. This metaphorical vine can be attributed not only to pride, but to the narrator himself.

Natural metaphors and metaphors of life and death combine in this poignant sentence, in which the narrator reveals his awareness of the destructive nature of pride. "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." In this description, there are some traces of guilt the narrator feels guilty about the way he treated Doodle, because now he tells this story in retrospect in full knowledge of what that meanness will lead to. The narrator describes the tensions in his relationship with Doodle using the thing that they are able to connect the most over: nature's beauty. The use of metaphors involving natural things-a "stream of love" and "seed of destruction"-fits with the natural world's prominent role in this story. "There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle." At the beginning, Doodle is born, just like autumn will be. The narrator describes summer as being "dead" and autumn soon to be "born." The metaphor of seasons dying and coming to life fits with the theme of death that surrounds this story. This story is full of figurative language, metaphors, and similes, and the very first line is one of these. Buy Study Guide "It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree."