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Poets serve as arbiters of and commentators on the way humans understand and interpret their world. Emily Dickinson rejected the LIFE IS A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME metaphor that informed the Puritan notion of the Christian way of life and replaced it with the more scientific metaphor of LIFE IS A VOYAGE IN SPACE.
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Learning to recognize the metaphors that structure a poet's poetics helps us to understand the metaphors that shape our understanding of ourselves as participants of the social, cultural, and natural worlds.
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This page is a summary of: Metaphor making meaning: Dickinson's conceptual universe, Journal of Pragmatics, December 1995, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/0378-2166(95)00006-e.
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