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The Role of Synaesthetic Metaphors in Contemporary English Poetry
The Role of Synaesthetic Metaphors in Contemporary English Poetry
English Poetry
Koliada Alina
The relevance of the research is predetermined by the necessity of
analyzing the concept of synaesthetic metaphor, its functions and usage in
literature as well as examining the models of metaphoric transfers between
different sensory channels in contemporary English poetry.
(Anahorish)
Taste-sound model
I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
(Personal Helicon)
Smell-sound model
(Death of a Naturalist)
Frequency of metaphoric transfers in Seamus Heaney’s poems