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Metaphor research there are more than two thousand years of history , but has traditionally been confined to the rhetorical field . Metaphor merely as a decorative language , literature rhetorical one . Metaphor research since the 1930s , exceeded the scope of the traditional rhetoric , and multidisciplinary research in the 1970s into the stage . Lakoff and others especially from the point of view of cognitive linguistics metaphor cognitive function , and opened up a new world of metaphor research . In the investigator's opinion, the metaphor is not just a linguistic phenomenon, more importantly, a universal human way of thinking, a cognitive means . The essence of metaphor is another type of things to explain or understand a thing (Lakoff Johnson , 1980:5 ) . This paper attempts to use research in recent years on the metaphor , Lakoff and other cognitive theory , to explore the use of metaphors in English poetry , including their characteristics, classification and functional analysis . The metaphor is the life principle of poetry , poetry and metaphor are inextricably linked . Poetic metaphor has the characteristics of creativity, flexibility , and continuity . Poetic metaphor characteristics determine the function of poetry : the rhetorical function defamiliarization function build function, cognitive function , and aesthetic functions . Manifestations of poetic language , sound , arranged in the form and text meaning , poetry metaphor into sound the Yu , shape Yu and Yiyu . Poetic metaphors exist in any level of poetry from punctuation and spelling of words , lines of the poem arranged , to the composition of the entire discourse meaning . Therefore , the poetic metaphor poets use the source domain (source domain) interpretation of the purpose of the domain (target domain) . The fundamental task of the poetic interpretation grasp of poetic metaphor . Enhanced metaphor awareness , improve the ability of metaphor , from the perspective of cognitive understanding of poetic metaphor best way to appreciate poetry .
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