Is there such a verb as this?

Hello there,

A metaphor is a noun which refers to a figure of speech or a literary device. Personally, I would not recommend using "metaphorise", as the dictionary does not recognise metaphor as a verb. I would probably write something like "the poet employs the figure of an artful master as a metaphor for music", or "the poet uses the figure of artful master which metaphorically represents music".

However, there is a more precise term you could use here, which is "personification" (a representation of a quality or concept by a figure in human form), so that you could say something like: "The poet personifies music in the form of an artful master" or something along these lines.

Anyway, hope this helps:

Regards,

Crafty

There is the verb "metamorphose" which expresses when something undergoes metamorphosis.

I've never heard the word you are trying to use. I looked it up, but it is not in the dictionary. You could say "the artful master is metaphoric for the music", but I think the word that is more appropriate in your sentence (although I don't know your poem) is "personifies". So you could use the original structure of your sentence and say "The poet personifies music as an 'artful master'..."

Unfortunately I think its an improper use of the word. You should check the dictionary for the word metaphor. Usually it has all forms of the word in italics. You can say "he metaphorically symbolized or symbolizes music with an artful master"...

Hope this helps!

Yes, metaphorize is a word. If it wasn't, which it looks like it "wasn't" eight years ago, you should have just used it anyway. Go ahead and ignore all of these previous posts.

Metaphorize

of course you can, it may not be a real word, but that is irrelevant when writing for an English class. all words must have an origin somewhere, and as long as you have a root and are not pulling a verb out of thin air that would confuse everyone who reads it, it should be a perfectly legitimate word.

I think the verb you are looking for is actually Metaphornicate. As in, "He wasn't sure if her eyes were a ghost galleon, so he just decided to risk it and asked her if she wanted to come over after school and metaphornicate or play scrabble or sumphin'" as opposed to "She just thought he was being simile, so she slapped him like the barrel brush slaps a truck tailgate in a gas station car wash"

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source

Metamorphize

\Met`a*mor"phize\, v. t. To metamorphose.

Yes it is the correct form