A contrastive study of English and Arabic metaphor in Emily Dickinson's and Sulimane Djuadi's poems

Abstract EN

This article aims to contrast and analyze some extracted metaphors of sadness, freedom, happiness, and love selected from Emily Dickinson’s and Sulimane Djuadi’s poems on one hand and to identify the similarities and differences between metaphors in English and Arabic in terms of structure, function, and hermeneutic interpretation of metaphors on the other.

in doing so, documentation technique is applied to collect the data and verify the metaphor city of both languages.

substantially, the comparative study shows that there are both similarities and differences between metaphors in English and Arabic.

the similarities display the poets’ genius for using the implicit meaning of metaphor to talk about sadness, freedom, happiness, and love.

the differences, however, demonstrate the notion of metaphor in Western rhetoric has come to mean a human conceptual system and a cognitive tool rather than a matter of language.