[PDF] The Meaning Of Poetic Metaphor eBook

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226470989

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"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida

Author : Keith J. Holyoak
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262551470

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An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Madison, WI : Atwood Pub.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781891859496

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Homo sapiens is a "meaning-producing" species. The ability of our minds to create these meanings is termed poetic logic. The use of metaphor to create and communicate ideas is so commonplace and pervasive as to go unnoticed. We no longer are aware that a metaphor is truly a metaphor because it is so entrenched. These metaphors permeate our thought processes, are exemplified in our language, and are reflective of our cultures.

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780151013562

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A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

Author : Carina Rasse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257736

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Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much on the creator’s ability to get his or her message across while, at the same time, leaving enough room for the interpreters to find out for themselves what a poem means to them, what emotions and feelings it evokes, and which experiences it conveys. This book uses interviews, questionnaires and think-aloud protocols to investigate the meanings and functions of metaphors from a poet’s perspective and to explore how readers interpret and engage with this poetry. Besides the theoretical contribution to the field of metaphor studies, this monograph presents numerous practical implications for a systematic exploration of metaphors in contemporary poetry and beyond.

Author : Alfred Noyes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780192794420

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An enduringly popular poem in a beautifully illustrated edition for children.

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cthulhu (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780739420096

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This book contains "...the ... largest collection of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction ever assembled," concentrating on the major phase of his career and including nearly all of his most famous work, and most of the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134381670

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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.