隐喻能力和英语文学教学——《咏水仙》的隐喻解析

Metaphorical Competence and English Literature Teaching——Analysis of Metaphors in “The Daffodils”

隐喻作为最常见的表达手段和重要的艺术表现手法,其特点和作用在文学作品中表现得更为全面,更为系统。本文分别从语法能力、语篇能力和社会语言能力三个方面分析诗歌《咏水仙》中的隐喻现象,并运用到英语文学课堂,旨在帮助提高学生的隐喻意识,加深其对文学作品的理解和认识,从而促进其思维能力、创新能力的提高。

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just a rhetorical device in language, but a thinking way in our ordinary conceptual system. This paper attempts to use the poem ＂The Daffodils＂ as an example, and analyze and explain the metaphors in it with respects to grammatical competence, discourse competence and social language competence. It aims at helping improve students＇ metaphorical competence to some degree, promote their creative thinking ability and optimize their communicative language competence.