Simon Armitage uses metaphor in many different ways in Not The Furniture Game and Mother.... He uses them to describe and build characters, in most cases; doesn't use much narrative and instead uses metaphor to help you build your story, so the interpretation varies and creates a much larger story from such a small poem. Armitage uses metaphors as a simple listed comparison as well as an extended metaphor that continues throughout the poem. These lead to a strange structure as it has no rhyme. Even in Not The Furniture Game there is no obvious rhythm, however there are many poetic values ​​such as the way it is punctuated. In the descriptive metaphors of Not The Furniture Game, Armitage builds character very effectively using many semantic fields that connect the man into one main field of terror. His shoulder blades are described as “two butchers at a meat splitting competition”. This creates the image of him as a sharp and dangerous character. The description of his dog as a "sentry box with no one in it" tells us that his belongings were also scary, dangerous, and the empty sentry box suggests they were soulless. There are also many anthropomorphic metaphors. These make him look disgusting and unquestionably abominable, like his toes which were "a rat's nest under the lawnmower". This tells us how his fingers are large and bruised, perhaps very hairy. He also constructs the image of revealing this "mouse's nest" by moving the lawnmower which represents something hiding his feet, presumably his shoes. The poem evidently suggests that he was a very careless and rude speaker as it says that he has the tongue of "an iguanodon. The reference to this shows a strong and harsh tongue as iguanodonts are large and bulky which conv...... in between a la carte......however it would be very dangerous and it is easy to lose control, unless you get used to the difficult skill which could take a long time. The allusion to the “fingertips” grabbing “the last penny of an inch” shows the desperation with which the mother clings to the “control” she has over her child. The “infinite sky” the child is trying to reach means infinite opportunities and experiences once freedom has been achieved. This is where the child could fall or fly, which means he could succeed or die in the harsh atmosphere of life. Armitage experiments with metaphor in two different ways. The metaphors listed leave you with many different stories that could be created, however the extended metaphor creates a clear story in your head, although it hints at the story both literally and metaphorically and leaves it up to the reader to put them together into one..