Image Schemes in Romantic Poetry
Abbas Fadhil Lutfi
abbas.lutfi@cihanuniversity.edu.iq
Abstract- "This study affords new insights into the meaning construction phenomenon and poetic language. It is a widely held view that the language of poetry and the naturally occurring language represent two different types of language, which employ different meaning construction devices and principles, and which have little in common. However, this work aims to verify that poetic language is but a mode of meaning construction, and its devices, which have long been said to be literary devices serving different rhetorical aims, are part of the general devices used in performing different mental activities, most importantly meaning production and consumption. As a way of cross-checking this hypothesis, romantic poetry was taken as the corpus of the study.
The paper represents an application of a major cognitive semantic theory, namely image schema, to three Romantic poems, namely Byron’s ‘The Prisoner of Chillon’, Keat’s ‘To Autumn’, and Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’."
Keywords- Cognitive Semantics, Image Schema, Romantic Poetry
Date: 28/05/2018
Place:Department of English