Love Is Like a Butterfly It Goes Where It Pleases Photo Courtesy: David Sacks/Getty Images Similes have been used to express love in songs, poems, plays and other written materials for centuries. They're excellent tools for conveying emotions in a beautiful way, only sometimes this literary term is dislocated with another method of expression: the metaphor. Although similes and metaphors are like, a metaphor is a figure of spoken language that straight calls one affair something else that it literally isn't, such as saying "Love is a poison." Similes that are seen in literature and other mediums can provide powerful imagery, especially when it comes to their ability to help us limited the emotional depths of dear — concepts that can get complicated and that we might otherwise have trouble explaining. Let's unpack what a simile really is and wait at some great similes for love. Simile Poem