Readers responses to metaphoricity in Keats' "the fall of Hyperion"

Abstract EN

Metaphor study has been a main feature of literary study since ancient rhetoric.

A number of approaches to metaphor have been devised to answer questions about whether metaphors are ornamental or essential for meaning ; whether metaphors are linguistic or psychological .Much work in cognitive science has demonstrated that metaphor is a basic pattern in the way that human mind works and that there is a basic distinction between linguistic expressions of metaphor and their underlying conceptual content .The present paper is an attempt to discuss a range of metaphors in Canto I of Keats' "The Fall of Hyperion" to the aim of identifying how full words can be taken as metaphorical by a number of readers