What are dreams but metaphors? Here’s Jane Hirshfield on the art of making metaphors in this cool TEDEd video, suitable for classroom use. (5 minutes, 39 seconds.)

• Find additional resources on metaphors at TEDEd, including a 45-minute BBC radio program, “History of Metaphor.”
• Learn more about Jane Hirshfield and read her poems at Poets.org and at The Poetry Foundation.
• Buy her books at Indie Bound.