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More Than Words Judah Halevi’s medieval Hebrew lyric, Summer, overflowing with imagery and imagination, cleverly illustrates the earth and her best season. Halevi’s use of similes, metaphors, personification, and diction all contribute to the beautiful picture created. Halevi used the simile and metaphor primarily in comparing the earth to a young girl or bride. “Like a secluded bride in winter, whose soul longs for the coming of love’s time” (ll. 3-4) describes earth’s patient waiting for the arrival of summer, the season of love and happiness. “Like a girl who delights in her finery and raiment” (l. 8), he sees the earth sharing her gifts of beauty, radiance, and color schemes with all. All smile under the warm rays of her sun, and witness new life, and growth, among the gardens and t