| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 外國語文學系研究所 === 90 === This thesis is a critique of Lakoff and Turner’s theory of poetic metaphors. I offer an
alternative analysis of poetic metaphor based on the Conceptual Mapping Model
(Ahrens 2001). I examine the following two questions: (1) What are the ways novel
metaphors occur in poetical texts and (2) How can we distinguish among these
different types of novel metaphors? Based on the result of the analysis of eight
poems from three poets, namely Sir Thomas Wyatt, Emily Dickinson and Robert
Frost, I argue that the novel mappings occur in poetry in three ways: Amplification,
Reduction and Integration (ARI). The novel mappings occur in poems by
amplifying (increasing correspondences between source domain and target of
conventional metaphor), reducing the scope of a source domain of a conventional
metaphor, or integrating the source domains of conventional metaphors. I
distinguish the novel mappings that occur in poems by identifying entities, qualities,
and functions found in both real world knowledge and in the actual mapping
(following Ahrens 2001) and comparing them with the novel mappings that occur in
poems. In sum, ARI can be viewed as a refreshment of Lakoff and Turner’s theory
of poetic metaphor because it provides methods and more specific answers to
analyzing novel metaphors in poetry.
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