5 Quotes by Margaret H Freeman

Discussions of the role of metaphor in poetry necessarily focus on the conceptual and linguistic levels, since the underlying sensate level that is below the level of consciousness cannot be articulated directly.

In conceptual integration theory, we create new emergent structure from fusing or blending shared topology from different domains, whether they are abstract or concrete.

According to conceptual metaphor theory, we understand abstract concepts in terms of concretely embodied image and orienting schemata, so that we perceive ideas like love and justice in terms of paths and balances, construing love as a journey and justice as weighing scales.

Although it is the sensory-motor-emotive level that motivates the poet, whose cognitive processes of creativity work upward from the roots through the trunk to the leaves of the cognitive metaphor tree, the respondents to a poem work downwards from the linguistic leaves through the conceptual trunk to its sensory-motor-emotive roots.

When one focuses on metaphor as product, problems surface as to whether a metaphor should be considered as a testable model of reality or taken literally when used poetically. On the other hand, focusing on the metaphor as process shows how metaphorising is hierarchical in nature, from the cognitive levels of subliminally sensate to conceptual to linguistic expression.