萨拉•蒂斯黛尔爱情诗中的概念隐喻探析

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浙江财经大学本科生毕业论文（设计）

Conceptual Metaphor in Sara Teasdale’s Love Lyrics

Abstract: As a dominating part winding through the poetry, poetic metaphor plays a

significant role in enhancing the glamour of poetry. Based on the cognitive linguistics, this

thesis employs the conceptual metaphor theory to explore poetic metaphor in Sara Teasdale’s

love lyrics to see that conceptual metaphor contributes a lot in understanding the love theme

of Sara Teasdale’s love lyrics. It mainly discusses how the cognitive mapping and function of

love metaphor work in the love lyrics. The domestic studies about Sara Teasdale’s love lyrics

are quite few, so this research will fill the gap of appreciation of Sara Teasdale’s love lyrics.

Key words: Sara Teasdale; love lyric; poetic metaphor; conceptual metaphor theory

萨拉·蒂斯黛尔爱情诗中的概念隐喻探析

摘要：作为贯穿诗歌的主要成分，诗性隐喻增加了诗歌的魅力。本文从认知语言学

的角度，运用概念隐喻理论来探索萨拉·蒂斯黛尔爱情诗中的诗性隐喻，认识概念隐喻

在理解萨拉·蒂斯黛尔爱情抒情诗主题的重要意义。本文着重论述爱情隐喻的认知映射

和认知功能在爱情诗歌中的应用。国内关于萨拉·蒂斯黛尔诗歌的研究较少，本文在一

定程度上填补了萨拉·蒂斯黛尔诗歌欣赏的空白。

关键词：萨拉·蒂斯黛尔；爱情诗；诗性隐喻；概念隐喻理论

浙江财经大学本科生毕业论文（设计）

Contents

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Sara Teasdale and Her Lyrics ............................................................................. 1

1.2 The Significance of This Study ......................................................................... 2

2. Conceptual Metaphor Theory .................................................................................... 3

2.1 Cognitive Mapping of Metaphor ....................................................................... 3

2.2 The Principle of Invariance ............................................................................... 5

2.3 Conceptual Metaphor and Poetry Analysis ....................................................... 6

3. Conceptual Metaphor in Sara Teasdale’s Love Lyrics .............................................. 9

3.1 Cognitive Mapping of Love Metaphor in Teasdale’s Love Lyrics .................... 9

3.1.1 LOVE IS SEA ........................................................................................... 10

3.1.2 LOVE IS DREAM .................................................................................... 12

3.1.3 LOVE IS FOLLOWING .......................................................................... 14

3.1.4 LOVE IS CALL ........................................................................................ 16

3.2 The Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Sara Teasdale’s Love Lyrics .......... 18

3.2.1 Construction of Love Imagery in Teasdale’s Lyrics ................................. 18

3.2.2 Salience of Love Theme in Teasdale’s Lyrics ........................................... 19

4. Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 21

References ................................................................................................................ 22

浙江财经大学本科生毕业论文（设计）

1. Introduction

1.1 Sara Teasdale and Her Lyrics

Sara Trevor Teasdale (1884-1933) is one of the most charming American lyrical poets in

the early 20th century. Since her first collection Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems was

published in 1907, the continuous published Rivers to the Sea (1915), Flame and Shadow

(1920), etc. gave her great reputation. Her third poetry collection Love Songs published in

1917 won the Columbia Poetry Prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry). The

simple verse focused on love, the expressions about love and the themes of love won the

admiration and gratitude of men and women through the 20th century.

Born in an old American family in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884, Sara Teasdale was a

purely American poet. After the tide of migration to the Middle West, her paternal grandfather

became a Baptist minister, which was her family tradition as New England ancestry. This

background of Puritan made Teasdale lead a life of self-discipline, especially in her love

experience. Thus in most of her lyrics, implicit and conservative words are often used to

describe the spiritual love. As the youngest child sixteen years younger than her closest

sibling, Teasdale had a poor health condition and a lonely childhood. Solitude nursed her

character of sensitivity and excellent sagacity in poems. After graduating from Hosmer Hall, a

private girl’s school, Teasdale became associated with a group of creative artistic women in St.

Louis known as the Potters during which she published her first her first collection Sonnets to

Duse and Other Poems.

The years of love in Sara Teasdale’s life contributed a lot to the creation of her love

lyrics. John Wheelock Hall was the man with whom Teasdale fell in deep love but their love

turned out to be in vain. However, “Wheelock remained her closest friend and confidant

throughout her life” (Mueller,1999). Then in 1913, Teasdale had a platonic relationship with

the poet Vachel Lindsay. His excess zest and poor financial situation exhausted her and

Teasdale finally was married to Ernst Filsinger in 1914. However, the marriage ends in

divorce in 1929. It was that period that Teasdale published Love Songs, which is widely

considered the most successful and typical Teasdale poetry. As her dear friend and fellow poet,

Jessie Rittenhouse (1927) said: “as one rereads Rivers To The Sea, the finest of Miss

Teasdale's early volumes, and Love Songs, one is instantly a thrall to that delight, that winged

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浙江财经大学本科生毕业论文（设计）ConceptualMetaphorinSaraTeasdale’sLoveLyricsAbstract:Asadominatingpartwindingthroughthepoetry,poeticmetaphorplaysasignificantroleinenhancingtheglamourofpoetry.Basedonthecognitivelinguistics,thisthesisemploystheconceptualmetaphortheorytoexplorepoeticmetaphorinSaraTeasdale’slovelyrics...

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