Metaphor in the poetic discourse of R.M. Rilke: cognitive and pragmatic approach

Abstract

In this paper metaphorical models in the poetic discourse of R.M. Rilke are described based on the criterion of language expression, they are elementary propositions which correlate two concepts in the interpreter’s mind on the basis of a connector, these models have an explicit or an implicit way of expression. They correlate with the leading text concepts of Rilke’s discourse, explicats as well as implicats. Among the established models such propositions are dominating, which have an explicit target, an explicit connector and an implicit source. The most frequency stylistic metaphor type in Rilke’s discourse is a personification.