Metaphor is widespread in each language,and enriches the languages and makes it vivid,thus is of high significance in language and discourse,especially in the lexical level.This paper concentrates on the high frequency of lexical metaphor and its rhetorical effect in the famous article Seeing People Off by Max Berbohm. Metaphor is widespread in each language, and enriches the languages ​​and makes it vivid, thus is of high significance in language and discourse, especially in the lexical level. This paper concentrates on the high frequency of lexical metaphor and its rhetorical effect in the famous article Seeing People Off by Max Berbohm.