The Use of Metaphorcity in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and Sylvia Plath: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Metaphoricity means metaphorical existence, figurativeness, and the reality or quality of being metaphorical. However, the present paper is a comparative one aims at showing the underlying metaphorical relationship between the concrete and abstract patterns, and their figurative indications in two selected poems by Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885-1972) and Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). However, the association of an object to an experience or an idea is composed in a complex way; a metaphor is defined in terms of another metaphor. Furthermore, two poems are selected: "Portrait d'une Femme"(1912) by Pound and "Cut"(1962) by Plath. Accordingly, the paper concludes that the metaphorical root relationships between the mental patterns and the simple patterns of thought in the two poems are different.