Study Of Metaphors In Emily Dickinson's Poetry From The Perspective Of Cognitive Linguistics

Metaphor has been regarded as an important device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish. Poets frequently use it not only to stimulate the reader to think and exercise their imagination, but also provoke a wide range of emotions. On the other hand, poetry is complex and difficult to comprehend due to the fact that poets frequently use metaphor to convey their thoughts, for metaphor has various interpretations.This paper intends to explore how Emily Dickinson uses novel metaphors on her love and death poems, and convey her feelings and thoughts, and how she uses metaphor by unconsciously taking advantage of human's cognitive models such as mapping, conceptual blending, and how metaphor enhances our thought processes and makes poetry exotic, exciting, quite interpretive and more enjoyable for the reader.