Subtly and innovatively, Owen extends the metaphor DEATH IS SLEEP by filling in the DREAMING slot in the SLEEP schema:
(“Has your Soul Sipped?” 2003)
The lines, despite their delicate wording, communicate how the soldiers have grown accustomed to the scenes of bloodshed that they might have lost their sensation, and even their humanity. The lines introduce a soldier entranced for having watched a moribund body slowly losing the power of life. The soldier explains that the effect this scene has left in him is much more pleasant than that felt by a man “in dearth” who finally finds salvation and compensation for his agony through “death / And dreams hereafter”. The expression “dreams hereafter” gives rise to the conventional DEATH IS SLEEP metaphor, according to which the death of the man “in …show more content…
Owen's poetic creativity manifests itself in his subtle exploitation of a source domain element, viz. dreaming, that is not commonly mapped onto the target domain “death.” This extension, Lakoff and Turner suggest, allows what a
(“Has your Soul Sipped?” 2003)
The lines, despite their delicate wording, communicate how the soldiers have grown accustomed to the scenes of bloodshed that they might have lost their sensation, and even their humanity. The lines introduce a soldier entranced for having watched a moribund body slowly losing the power of life. The soldier explains that the effect this scene has left in him is much more pleasant than that felt by a man “in dearth” who finally finds salvation and compensation for his agony through “death / And dreams hereafter”. The expression “dreams hereafter” gives rise to the conventional DEATH IS SLEEP metaphor, according to which the death of the man “in …show more content…
Owen's poetic creativity manifests itself in his subtle exploitation of a source domain element, viz. dreaming, that is not commonly mapped onto the target domain “death.” This extension, Lakoff and Turner suggest, allows what a