A Study On Love Images In Emily Dickinson’s Nature Poetry Based On Conceptual Metaphor

Emily Dickinson is a famous poet in the United States and even the whole world.Like Walt Whitman,she is regarded as the pioneer of imagist and the model of modernist poetry in the early 20 th century.The themes of her poems involve nature,love,death,and many other aspects,among which a third of them are about nature,her poetic images are rich in expression techniques,and her use of metaphor is unique.Many of her poems involve human cognition,including mind,feeling,and the human brain,and she created her style of metaphorical poetry.This paper will focus on this kind of cognitive description.Taking Dickinson’s nature poems as the main analysis corpus,chapter Ⅱ of this paper focuses on the study of the love theme in natural imagery.Based on the image of water,flowers,animals,and the seasons,in combination with Dickinson’s growing environment and emotional experience,Chapter Ⅱ mainly analyzes her unconventional creative techniques,connects the different stage of her emotional experience,and analyzes the characteristics of the nature images in her poems and the evolution of the connotation behind them.Combined with the conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive poetics,chapter Ⅲ analyzes the poetic metaphors in Dickinson’s nature poems from the perspective of love,reveals the multiple meanings of her poems,and further clarifies the strong strangeness in her poetry creation.This paper attempts to prove the powerful explanatory of conceptual metaphor theory on poetic metaphor in natural imagery,and at the same time,to provide a more comprehensive perspective for understanding and appreciating Dickinson’s nature poems.