More than Conventional--Novel Use of Metaphor in Poetry

• Main Authors: Ya-Hui Sung, 宋雅惠
• Other Authors: Professor Kathleen Ahrens
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19252435750461095314

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.