The function and purpose of metaphor has become commonly defined, as Peter Newmark does, as “an aesthetically pleasing as well as insightful truth” and, in order to do this, the author must “become a translator of truth“ (“The Function of Metaphor”, __ ). “Truth” in Newmark’s opinion is an aesthetic experience that becomes owned by the reader through reader response. This implies that the reader deconstructs metaphor from his or her aesthetic experience into a truth applicable on the individual level. Thus, the author is not a constructor of truth through metaphor – truth that is applicable to his or her own lives. This makes the author is a passive facilitator of concepts that the audience builds into truth. It is undeniable that the individual
