The Projection Of War - 1151 Words

The Projection of ‘War’ in Poetry: Applying Metaphor Theory One study that investigates the role of metaphor in poetry is Peter Stockwell (2002). Stockwell defines metaphor as ‘ the use of one expression to refer to a different concept in in a way which is still regarded as meaningful, and metaphor has most prototypically been associated with poetic and literary usage.’ According to Stockwell, much work in cognitive science has demonstrated that metaphor is related to the function of human mind. Zoltà ¡n Kà ¶vecses (2009) affirms that poets share people’s everyday conceptual metaphor they use in poetry and blend proposed that in many cases poetry makes use of what he and Turner, (1996) Fauconnier and Turner (2002) call blends, in which†¦show more content†¦The mentioning of these circumstances creates a distinctive thematic representation. The construction of the cleft sentence ‘it was’ followed by the adverbial phrase is to emphasize the time’ fourteenth of that month’ and the place ‘Goyja’. Here, the context is described literary which is the rheme of the poem while ‘the wind abducted my pen’ is the theme. The verb ‘abduct’ is a transitive verb. This structure is clearly metaphorical. The contextual parameters of the first two lines are not clear-cut shown. The field including the process of ‘abduction’ is expressed in a lexico-grammatically a different way that creates a grammatical metaphorical expression which according to Halliday and Hassan (1995) involves the transformation of verbs and adjectives. The process of abduction is force dynamic image schema metaphor in the sense that wind cannot ‘abduct’ things but human beings and thus human being and wind are compared. The process of abduction is a characteristic of human being. This material process requires a human actor while the poet uses ‘the wind’ as instrumental as a participant. In addition, Halliday and Hassan’s interpersonal metafunction of the second participant of the verb ‘abduct’ involves another grammatical metaphor wherein a ‘pen’ is not used in its literal sense. Here, ‘pen’ refers as thoughts, ideas, and feeling and/or anything that can be written. The noun group involving determiner ‘my pen’ includes the person