Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that … - Don Paterson

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Don Paterson

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. . . . Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.

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We turn from the light to see.

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The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself. . . Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

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Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

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Imagine your shadow burning off the page
As the dear world and the dead word disengage

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Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

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