A recommendation please? I am looking for some books or articles where they have metaphors and cultural terms, so can anyone help me? I would really appreciate it.

English metaphores, HELP! Hello, I was reading some stuff and I found these metaphors, I tried to understand them but these are particularly difficult, can anyone help me understand them, please? Here they are: 1. The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky, violet, amber and rose. 2. Men court not death when there are sweets still left in life to taste. 3. In capitalism, money is the life blood of society but charity is the soul. 4. Whose world is but the trembling of a flare, / And heaven but as the highway for a shell, 5. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, / Of flowers of chivalry and not of weeds! 6. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle thought. 7. And swish of rope and ring of chain / Are music to men who sail the main. 8. Still sits the school-house by the road, a ragged beggar sunning. 9. The child was our lone prayer to an empty sky. 10. Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, / Life is a fiddler, and we all must dance.

Just writing about my dog I love my dog for two reasons. The first one is because my daddy gave it away to me. On November 11th of 2004 my father and I were walking on the street when we suddenly saw a white furr ball in a box and at that instant we both fell in love with him. The second reason is because he is a loyal companion. When I'm sad he's there, when I'm happy he's there and he knows that when I'm angry he shouldn't be there. In conclusion my love makes my life more enjoyable because of the decision my father made that day. I know I made a lot of errors so please help xD