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Metaphor-Icon Link in Poetic Texts: A Cognitive Approach to Iconicity The poetic imagination extends the conventional metaphors of love to the realm both of the poet's particular experience and of the potential experience of all lovers, which all reside in the blend. There are images in local metaphors, too, which enrich the feel of the poem by mapping a mixing act of waters, and of invisible air onto a mingling act of lovers, by mapping a contact of visible natural objects and of fragrant flowers onto a kissing of lovers. Indeed, the poem is a metaphorical icon of 'love's philosophy.' The analysis by the model of blending has demonstrated how and where the organic unity of the poem is buttressed by diagrammatic and metaphorical coherence between the formal dimension and the dimension of concept and image in the poetic text. www.trismegistos.com /MagicalLetterPage/SSArticles/hiraga/hiraga.html   (7236 words)

Theology Today - Vol 41, No. 3 - October 1984 - BOOK NOTES - Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of ... It concentrates on poetic metaphor, which expresses that kind of transfiguration of meaning which brings it closest to the most characteristic language of religion. he manages to make very clear how "poetic transfiguration of language and experience can generate insights of intrinsic worth to formal religion and metaphysical reflection." He is especially illuminating in his discussion of the image of the Rose which recurs throughout the poems and also in his defense of the much criticized reflective passages. According to many Christian theologians, theology exists to serve faithful proclamation, and it is, surely, in the act of preaching that the language of theology and that of transfiguring poetic metaphor are at their closest. theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1984/v41-3-booknotes9.htm   (499 words)

Reuven Tsur: On Metaphoring. Jerusalem: Israel Science Publishers. 1987. Theories of metaphors are traditionally concerned with two questions: How can one recognize a metaphor, and how can one offer a plausible explication of it. These papers assume that the witty or emotional quality of a metaphor or simile is not determined only by the semantic elements included, but also by its structure, the "rhetorical manipulation" of those elements. Chapter 11, "Poetry of Disorientation", discusses three conspicuously puzzling poetic devices usually associated with varieties of the poetry of wit: a specific kind of application of sensuous metaphors, the metaphysical conceit and the grotesque. www.tau.ac.il /~tsurxx/On_metaphoring_Abstract.html   (670 words)

Metaphor-Icon Link in Poetic Texts: A Cognitive Approach to Iconicity The poetic imagination extends the conventional metaphors of love to the realm both of the poet's particular experience and of the potential experience of all lovers, which all reside in the blend. There are images in local metaphors, too, which enrich the feel of the poem by mapping a mixing act of waters, and of invisible air onto a mingling act of lovers, by mapping a contact of visible natural objects and of fragrant flowers onto a kissing of lovers. Indeed, the poem is a metaphorical icon of 'love's philosophy.' The analysis by the model of blending has demonstrated how and where the organic unity of the poem is buttressed by diagrammatic and metaphorical coherence between the formal dimension and the dimension of concept and image in the poetic text. www.conknet.com /~mmagnus/SSArticles/hiraga/hiraga.html   (7236 words)

Governance through Metaphor Project: 1.1 Significance: forms of presentation Analogy and metaphor, however they may be distinguished, have thus come to serve the same function as they have traditionally had in theology where metaphor has been used to focus the mind on the dynamic real. She has postulated the development of an epistemology of newness in which learning is the perception of newness and cognition depends on a disposition for wonder leading to this domain of conception-perception interactions. She argues that the notion of metaphor is commonly understood to mean the description of one thing in terms of another. www.uia.org /metaphor/metacom_bodies.php?kap=3   (1130 words)

Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology This method [the poetic] calls in consciously the whole figure of the human organism of mind and body, fuses it with its own instrument of language, and from this builds up its thought in an organic and human frame by which the human being and his universe are to be related and interpreted. Metaphoric insight never takes us "out of ourselves," but it returns us to ourselves with new insight; it is not a mystical, static, intellectual vision, but an insight into how ordinary human life and events can be made to move beyond themselves by connecting them to this and to that. Poetic metaphor is used not as an embellishment of what can be said some other way, but precisely because what is being said is new and cannot be said any other way. www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=452&C=365   (7085 words)

Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Metaphor comprises a subset of analogy and closely relates to other rhetorical concepts such as comparison, simile, allegory and parable. Metaphor and simile are two of the best known tropes and are often mentioned together as examples of rhetorical figures. A final difference is that in practice, often-used metaphors can "wear away" into dead metaphors as listeners come to learn metaphorical meanings by rote rather than making sense of seemingly nonsensical assertions, whereas a simile, because it explicitly calls attention to the act of comparison, is not as susceptible to the loss of metaphoricity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metaphor   (2237 words)

Local Writer's Workshop - Works-In-Progress The use of a diversity of metaphorical devices is not new to prose or poetry. Poems or poetic prose are communications in the form of feelings bound in connectedness, as opposed to being language to be interpreted into specific meaning, but even beyond that they are transformations of the poet or writer's internal landscape pointed at the universal or archetypal. The difficulty arrives because the metaphorical is the presentation of the poetic that is affixed as the form itself. www.members.tripod.com /~lww_2/formforumOCT1.htm   (4039 words)

on words and things Metaphor finds its essence in the act of sort-crossing or duality of sense, but it does that by filling up the "as if" prescription, "fusing two senses by making believe there is only one sense". Metaphor brings remote ideas together into a unity and it does that by following the guidance offered by their likeness, as we have seen above, for example, when "time" and "river" were brought together in the metaphor "Time is a river". If it is true that literal sense and metaphorical sense are distinguished and articulated within an interpretation, so too it is within an interpretation that a second level reference, which is properly the metaphorical reference, is set free by means of the suspension of the first level reference. www.geocities.com /aga_10/onwordsandthings.htm   (6681 words)

quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Metaphor is one of our cognitive grappling tools; it enables us to see the world in multiple perspectives and to engage with the world flexibly. Metaphor is much more profoundly a feature of human sense-making than the largely ornamental and redundant poetic trope some have taken it to be. Nor is metaphor a riddle to be solved, a semantic obstacle to be leapt over, before the poem's meaning can be discovered; it is itself a solution, a leap, a meaning, and a discovery. hum.lss.wisc.edu /~danaher/metaphor/quotes.html   (606 words)

Difference Between a Metaphor and a Simile. The simile is always poetic, while the metaphor always has the ring of truth (perhaps this is why metaphors readily become accepted into language as "dead metaphors", while there is no such thing as a "dead simile"). In the end, it may one day be determined that the difference between true metaphor and true simile may well be regional within the brain, with metaphor rooted in logic and the simile rooted in emotion. Further, that this symmetric aspect of metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally, thus may be harnessed to mathematically predict missing knowledge and invention in all other disciplines. knowgramming.com /metaphors/metaphor_and_simile_difference.htm   (1420 words)

Conceptual Metaphor, Language, Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Linguistic metaphors are motivated by conceptual metaphors and are the realisations that appear in everyday written and spoken forms. It sees the workings and interpretation of metaphor to be in the field of pragmatics where metaphorical meaning is derived algorithmically from 'literal' language according to the application of cumbersome principles and the influence of context. Novel, creative metaphorical expressions in a language can be traced back to a limited number of underlying conceptual metaphors formed by experience and culture; the instantiations are novel but the mappings are pre-existent and reside in the conceptual system. www.shakespeare.uk.net /journal/jllearn/1_2/bailey   (4337 words)

Religious metaphor and its denial in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai Judaism - Find Articles Even loss of faith, with its rich poetic associations, the traditional awe and reverence in the face of a mystery beyond comprehension, and its replacement by chaos and meaninglessness, might ultimately be fruitful. As long as the Bible remained the daily-read blueprint of this civilization, religious metaphor was a mostly happy marriage of collective faith and the private imagination. Even when religious metaphors were altered or reversed, as in Herbert's "The Agony" ("Love is that liquor, sweet, and most divine,/Which my God feels as Blood, but I as wine"), the effect was to enhance, not diminish, faith. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_3-4_53/ai_n14735945   (859 words)

Mu' in the art of haiku: Some aesthetic remarks on nothing--by Gunter Wohlfart The metaphor is one of the main components of human language in so far as it is poiesis of sense, that is, in so far as it "makes sense," or transmits meaning. But the metaphor, as we know, is also one of the most significant elements of poetic language in so far as it "creates meaning," or communicates an idea in a figurative way. At the same time the metaphor is negated, because by disregarding the rocks in verse b we lose the analogy with the drill as it appears in the relations c -- > b and a -- > b. www.quasar.ualberta.ca /cpin/cpinfolder/papers/wohlfart.htm   (2695 words)

Reflectaphors.html In poems, the use of metaphor as a technique is extensive and in metaphor resides all of those qualities of vitality, mystery, truth and timeless excitement we normally associate with poetry itself. Poetic metaphor avoids this exploitation and eventual exhaustion (though not for the lack of critics' trying) because of its X/Y dynamics and because the metaphor is set in a subtle structure of other metaphor-like devices which engender a pervasive order. For example, as we noted earlier, in a poetic metaphor, to achieve the proper X/ Y tension, the terms have to be close enough together for an observer to perceive their similarities yet far enough apart to create an enduring, perhaps astonishing, contrast. people.wcsu.edu /briggsj/Reflectaphors.html   (8133 words)

Metaphor and Analogy   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Rather, metaphor underlies everyday speech and is one of the fundamental mechanisms whereby we adapt to new or challenging situations. Such familiarizing metaphors, in which we describe new experiences in terms of old ones (or unfamiliar ideas in terms of familiar ones) might even be a necessary condition for intelligence. Such defamiliarizing metaphors complement the function of familiarizing metaphors, by providing a means beyond the limitations of a static language. www.ptproject.ilstu.edu /metaphrh.htm   (393 words)

Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY Sidelight: Though similar to both a series of symbols and an extended metaphor, the meaning of an allegory is more direct and less subject to ambiguity than a symbol; it is distinguishable from an extended metaphor in that the literal equivalent of an allegory's figurative comparison is not usually expressed. An elaborate metaphor, artificially strained or far-fetched, in which the subject is compared with a simpler analogue usually chosen from nature or a familiar context. A metaphor which is drawn-out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem, usually by using multiple comparisons between the unlike objects or ideas. www.poeticbyway.com /glossary2.html   (10595 words)

quotes Metaphor is one of our cognitive grappling tools; it enables us to see the world in multiple perspectives and to engage with the world flexibly. Metaphor is much more profoundly a feature of human sense-making than the largely ornamental and redundant poetic trope some have taken it to be. Nor is metaphor a riddle to be solved, a semantic obstacle to be leapt over, before the poem's meaning can be discovered; it is itself a solution, a leap, a meaning, and a discovery. palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu /~danaher/metaphor/quotes.html   (606 words)

From Literature to Literacy: Teaching Writing with Cognitive Metaphor Metaphor is a tool so ordinary that we use it unconsciously and automatically, with so little effort that we hardly notice it. In other words, if we use cognitive metaphor to teach students to write about literature, we should be prepared to go against the theoretical grain of its proponents and to make the rhetoric of invention a central focus of classroom discusssion. Cognitive metaphor, in conclusion, helps teachers to integrate reading and writing in a coherent curriculum if the notion of metaphor promoted by cognitive scientists is balanced by Kenneth Burke's sense that tropes are partial. www.english.uga.edu /cdesmet/CCCC/metaphor.html   (1668 words)

Word Meaning and Metaphor whether a proper understanding of metaphor is better achieved by examining the speaker's intentions or by considering the effect of the metaphor on the hearer), and more recent material such as that by Lakoff. According to Lakoff, ordinary language is riddled with metaphorical usage; even an expression like "fall asleep" invokes a metaphorical use of 'fall'. However, this perspective has been criticized for failing to capture the difference between poetic metaphor and the networks of associations that words have in ordinary usage. www.hum.uit.no /a/svenonius/courses/metaphor.html   (373 words)

Jacket 31 - October 2006 - Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche’s Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor   (Site not responding. Last check: ) As a creative writer, he is acutely conscious of the centrality of metaphor in the elaboration of fictional constructs, yet as an epistemologist he is constantly irritated by the metaphorical quality of language, as it is emblematic of the mismatch between his chief instrument of investigation and the external world. The poetic metaphor has lost its liberating function and ceases to be the key concept it was in the sumnmer of 1873. The metonymical bond thus does not allow the poetic metaphor to survive as an independent, positive creative principle in a climate where the kind of art it had stood for in Nietzsche’s transitional aesthetic was now declared peripheral to a world dominated by science, and was thus in danger of becoming obsolete. jacketmagazine.com /31/stephens-nietzsche.html   (8153 words)

Tsur, Aspects of Cognitive Poetics The actual objects of poetics are the particular regularities that occur in literary texts and that determine the specific effects of poetry; in the final analysis--the human ability to produce poetic structures and understand their effect--that is, something which one might call poetic competence (Bierwisch, 1970: 98-99). Returning now to Alterman's metaphor, the village is perceived as if immersed in some gestalt-free and thing-free entity, wrapping as it were the whole village or person, enhancing the unity of the parts of the village (or of the person), or transcending the split between the person and his environment. Sensuous metaphor may, then, be regarded as another literary device to delay the smooth cognitive process consisting in the contact with some unevaluated image; the device's function is thus to prolong a state of disorientation and so generate an aesthetic quality of surprise, startling, perplexity, astounding, or the like. www2.bc.edu /~richarad/lcb/fea/tsur/cogpoetics.html   (11959 words)

PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Metaphor as embodied thought is probably hard wired in the brain also. Whatever the brain processes for metaphor are, understanding metaphor as this kind of mapping from source to target opens up the possibility of the analysis of poems and stories. Metaphor and emotional response are two literary concepts for which we may be able, even now, to state a neurological basis. www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2001_holland03.shtml   (6901 words)

Article-More than Cool Reason- A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understa... On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhet... Metaphor and Thought reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_more_than_cool_reaso-0226468127.htm   (938 words)

METAPHOR The simplest and also the most effective poetic device is the use of comparison. It might almost be said that poetry is founded on two main means of comparing things: simile and metaphor. Robert Herrick wrote "You are a tulip" he used a metaphor. www.tnellen.com /cybereng/lit_terms/metaphor.html   (346 words)

metaphor: Documentation - January 2005 This site would like not to be the place of the answers to these essential questions about the metaphor, but it would like to be a place where the reader can find material in order to have his own answers. If scientific research on the metaphors has taken a rise for 25 years, research on research on the metaphor does not have much advanced. It is about an index of the proper names quoted in the French-speaking and anglophone literature scientific and philosophical on the metaphor: It is obvious that I am only at the beginning of this astronomical and gargantuesque statement... www.info-metaphore.com /english/metaphor-index.html   (973 words)

subjective Also, his contribution to the subjective aspects of gemology is recorded in the numerous uniquely descriptive and poetic phrases that adorn both his published papers as well as his laboratory certificates. It may even be said that poetic metaphor gets created and tested (through reading, hearing, feeling and publishing) just as rigorously as scientific theory - which is a form of metaphor itself. Poetic metaphor is just as important a way of seeing reality as scientific metaphor. www.emeraldmine.com /subjective.htm   (1679 words)

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