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Volume 14:1 January 2014
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Metaphor and Interdiscursivity in J. S. Anand’s
Beyond Life! Beyond Death!!

Roghayeh Farsi
Neyshabur University

Abstract

The present paper analyzes poetic metaphor and interdiscursivity in the poems of J. S. Anand’s Beyond Life! Beyond Death!! The main argument of the paper is that poetic metaphor bears the poet’s ideological perspective. This analysis aims at unraveling the contextual roots of poetic metaphor, hence a cognitive linguistic approach. By drawing a link between poetic metaphor and interdiscursivity, the paper shows the poet’s reliance on different discourses for the sake of creativity. It is argued there is a dialogical relation between the poet and the different interpellating discourses of his society. This dialogism sheds a new light on the stance of the poet, hence the issue of ideology.

The theoretical method of this study is a mixed one of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual cognitive linguistics and basic notions of critical discourse analysis. This interdisciplinary lens fills in the gap of either theory when applied to poetry. In Anand’s poetry, such poetic strategies as depersonification in the form of bodification and thingification are the dominant tactics which impregnate his poetic metaphors with his critical views.

Key words: metaphor; Anand; discourse; interdiscursivity; ideology

Introduction

Metaphor is variously defined by different philosophers and thinkers beginning from Aristotle. Although Aristotelian definition of metaphor as the elliptical versions of similes and comparisons has been nullified, metaphor has conventionally been regarded as merely a device of poetic imagination. It has been viewed as being separated from everyday language used by common people. This delegation has given metaphor a subsidiary status with respect to daily language which is mostly considered as being serious. Although metaphor gained importance with the romantic claim that language is originally metaphorical, romantic literary critics tended to distinguish poetry and metaphor from everyday language on the ground that “both poetry and metaphor came to be seen as expressing an ‘emotive’, rather than a cognitive, meaning” (Leezenberg, 2001, p. 1).

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Roghayeh Farsi
Neyshabur University
rofarsi@yahoo.com
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