Explain three metaphors with their effectivness in the poem "Full Moon and Little Frieda" in full details. "Full moon and Little Frieda" by Ted Hughes

Three metaphors in "Full Moon and Little Frieda" are as
follows:

"A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch" which
is technically personification, but personification is a form of metaphor, a form of
imagery.

"A dark river of blood, many boulders..." is a
metaphor for how the water looks in the dark: a
metaphor.

"The moon has stepped back" is personification
(which is a form of metaphor), and the rest of the quote ("The moon has stepped back
like an artist gazing amazed at a work / That points at him amazed") is a
simile.

"A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror / To
tempt a first star..." is a metaphor, comparing the surface of the brimming pail to that
of a mirror.

Every poem speaks specifically, and uniquely,
to each reader. I cannot speak for how the poem "speaks" to you. However, it is the
imagery that the author uses that describes with lovely details the scene of this
particular night when Frieda notices, with joy, the moon above
her.

The imagery also is "painted" in such a way that it
seems to reflect the sense of that simile noted above: "The moon has stepped back
like an artist gazing amazed at a work." The moon is compared to an
artist who stares amazed at the beauty it has created with its reflected light, while
that beauty, with equal amazement, points back at the
moon. (This reminds me always of the picture "Drawing Hands" by M.C. Escher
(1948).)

The very art that is so carefully described in the
moonlit landscape is created by an "artist" that a part of that landscape (Frieda) is
equally amazed by. As with the "chicken or the egg," debate, where does the admiration
begin? With the moon looking below (metaphor) or the child gazing
upward?

This is, of course—as I mentioned before—based upon
my perceptions of the poem. I hope this
helps.