The usage of conceptual metaphor in Eliot's The Waste Land and Al Sayyab's the rain song: comparative study
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| Item Description: | There is an evident gap in investigating metaphor as a cross-cultural phenomenon in modern poetry comparatively between Arabic and English. Also, several scholars argue that further experimental studies are needed on metaphors in poetry. Moreover, it is noticed that most previous studies are about studying metaphor in and for Engl ish language so that there is a manifest inadequacy in the previous as well as current studies in investigating the usages of the conceptual metaphor comparatively among different languages. This study aimed to contrast and compare modern Arabic to Engli h poetry in using the conceptual metaphor. Unquestionably, the best choices to be the scope of the study were T.S Eliot and Al Sayyab du to their vital roles in establishing the base of modern poetry in their languages. This study adopted Conceptual Metaphor Theory to shed light on using the conceptual metaphor in modern Arabic versus English poetry comparatively. It cone ntrated on the usage of conceptual metaphor in Al Sayyab's Rain Song and T. S. Eliot's Waste Land as two poles of modernism movement. All conceptual metaphors of the two poems were extracted, studied, analysed and finally classified into juxtaposed tables according to the suitable domain of their central concepts in order to meet the aims of the study. The study used four different strategies to analyse the data comparatively; these strategies were the 'Up and Down', 'P rsonification', Animate and Inanimate', and 'Five Source Domain'. The final result showed that conceptual metaphor played a vital role in distinguishing the language of modem poetry. Also, th two poems were pessimistic and metaphoric. The Rain Song involved conceptual metaphors in a portion of 65 % of the total lines, whil The Waste Land had only 39 %; this indicated that Th Rain Song dramatically exceeded The Waste Land in using this phenomenon. It was also revealed that The Rain Song surpassed The Waste Land in six domains, but The Waste Land exceed d only in four. In spite of the various dissimilarities between the two poems in many aspects, several expressions, symbols, themes and styles were shared by the two poems. Finally, this study uncovers that many aspects ofintertextuality went from The Waste Land to The Rain Song. This study was the first that purported to investigate the usages of conceptual metaphor between The Rain Song and The Waste Land comparativ ly. 0, it helped in declaring the importance of this phenomenon in both modern Arabic and English poetry. Furthermore, it elucidated the role of m taphor in breaking the codes of the two poems and so helping in illustrating and interpreting the implicit poetic scene. Moreover, it paved the way for future researches to study this phenomenon between modern Arabic and English comparatively. Finally, it contributed to the previous studies via collecting, analysing and presenting some data about the conceptual metaphor, its usage and its pragmatic functions in Arabic and English trying to treat part of lacking related studies. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 232 leaves; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-192) |