Memory in poetry is an important aspect that poets must consider. According to Dymoke, Andrew and Anthony (18), it plays central roles such as constructing and maintaining the connections between things perceived in the poem. With a specific emphasis, the use of metaphors in poetry considerably promotes this function. A major function of metaphor in poetry is to talk about a single situation, object, or circumstance while alluding the other. According to Lakoff & Turner (2009), poetry, as a component of oral literature is a metaphor used to demonstrate the manner in which experience human life at a higher depth. In this way, the symbolic images employed in poetry facilitate the understanding of the audience abstract concepts and animations, which cannot be translated into words.
Metaphor, as a memory, also helps to explain the emotions simpler ways (Seyed-Gohrab 81). A significant difference between poems and other narratives such as history is that poems provide the explanations about emotions, while history offers explanations about events (Studevent-Hickman 43). In this way, the utilisation of metaphor in poetry helps the audience connect and animate different things perceived. In this way, the memory becomes an important agent that collects the experiences and consequently builds an individual’s subjectivity as a result storing and reworking them.
Finally, the metaphor has also been referred to as a figure of speech in poems as it offers a close resemblance to something like it. For instance, a poem can refer a fierce person as a tiger. In this way, the audience will be allowed to connect what the animated object in this case and what is perceived. In this sense, therefore, the metaphor proves to be a powerful tool for the poets who desire to express the complexity of feelings and insights.
Works Cited
Dymoke, Sue, Andrew Lambirth, and Anthony Wilson. Making Poetry Matter: International Research on Poetry Pedagogy. , 2015. Print.
Seyed-Gohrab, A A. Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Print.
Studevent-Hickman, Benjamin. John Ashbery and English Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Print.
Lakoff, G., & Turner, M. (2009). More than cool reason: A field guide to poetic metaphor
