Author:Liying Cao Author Unit: Hunan Institute of Engineering, International Education College, Xiangtan 411104, Hunan, P. R. China
Abstract:Metaphor is a pervasive thinking mode and a cognitive means of human beings. Poetry has long been seen as the
paradigm site for metaphor. Poetical metaphor has twofold functions: rhetoric function, defamiliarization function,
constructive function, cognitive function and aesthetic function.
Keywords:Poetry; Metaphor; Poetical metaphor
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