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Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025
纸质出版日期：2025-03-24
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(2025). A Cognitive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Emily Dickinson's Nature-Themed Poems. 国际教育与发展（英文版）, 9(3), 184-188.
Zhou Yajun.A Cognitive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Emily Dickinson's Nature-Themed Poems[J].Journal of International Education and Development,2025,09(03):184-188.
(2025). A Cognitive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Emily Dickinson's Nature-Themed Poems. 国际教育与发展（英文版）, 9(3), 184-188. DOI： 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250037.20250903.
Zhou Yajun.A Cognitive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Emily Dickinson's Nature-Themed Poems[J].Journal of International Education and Development,2025,09(03):184-188. DOI： 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250037.20250903.
From a cognitive perspective
this paper focuses on identifying and exploring a series of metaphors and the ways in which they are presented in Emily Dickinson's nature-themed poetry with the aim to reveal how linguistic forms embody meanings. It is found that Dickinson uses ontological metaphors and structural metaphors in poems extensively and the selection of metaphors serves the meaning. The significance of the study contains the following points: firstly
this paper discusses metaphors in Dickinson's nature-themed poems by using the theory of metaphor in cognitive poetics
which is conducive to an in-depth understanding of connotations in poems. Secondly
readers can better understand the role of metaphor in poetry.
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