A cognitive metaphorical reading of john donne's : “a valediction : forbidding mourning”

الملخص EN

One of the major aspects of metaphysical poets was the use of exceptional way of comparing highly unlike concepts or dissimilar images, or cognitive metaphor.

This paper tries to provide a cognitive metaphorical reading of one of the most renewed poems of John Donne: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning".

The first section of the paper provides includes a short biography of John Donne, a summary on this poem, and main characteristics of the metaphysical poetry.

The second section gives a detailed analysis of the poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'.

The paper ends with section three conclusion and list of references.

The Metaphysical poets were themselves intelligent, cultivated and learned men.

Their poetry is characteristically witty, reflective, analytical and psychological.

A metaphysical poem tends to be brief, economical in language, and is always closely woven.

Moreover, metaphor includes different aspects and different dimensions.

One of these dimensions is cognition and realizing the idea in a piece of poetry.