Where are three metaphors in this poem? Analysis on Two ways of seeing a river by Mark twain Essay Topic: Way, River, Mark Twain, Seeing Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.But I had lost something, too.I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing A River,” 1883 The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. It was published in 1883 in Mississippi, by Mark Twain. In "Two Views of the River," tal