The expression time flies is also metaphorical, with time being identified with a bird. The word daisy, for example, comes from an Old English word meaning "day's eye." The ray-like appearance of the daisy, which opens and closes with the sun, is reminiscent of an eye that opens in the morning and closes at night. Lots of common words we use every day were originally vivid images, although they exist now as dead metaphors whose original aptness has been lost.
Metaphor is the fundamental language of poetry, although it is common on all levels and in all kinds of language.
Many critics regard the making of metaphors as a system of thought antedating or bypassing logic. When we use metaphor, we make a leap beyond rational, ho-hum comparison to an identification or fusion of two objects, resulting in a new entity that has characteristics of both: the voice isn't like silk it is silk. A metaphor is an implied comparison, as in "the silk of the singer's voice," in contrast to the explicit comparison of the simile, which uses like or as, as in "a voice smooth like silk." A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them: the person being addressed in "you're a peach" is being equated with a peach, with the suggestion being that the person is pleasing or delightful in the way that a peach is pleasing and delightful. "You're a peach!" We've all heard the expression, and it's a good example of what we call metaphor.
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