| Summary: | There is an evident gap in investigating metaphor a a cross-cultural phenomenon in
modem poetry comparatively between Arabic and English. Also, several scholars argue
that further experimental studies are needed on metaphors in poetry. Moreover, it is
noticed that most previous studies are about studying metaphor in and for English
language so that there is a manifest inadequacy in the previous as well as current studies
in inve tigating the usages of the conceptual metaphor comparatively among different
languag s. This study aimed to contrast and compare modern Arabic to English po try in
using the conceptual metaphor. Unquestionably, the best choic s to be the cope of the
study were T.S Eliot and Al Sayyab due to their vital roles in establishing the base of
modern poetry in their languages. This study adopted Conceptual Metaphor Theory to
shed light on using the conceptual metaphor in modern Arabic versus English poetry
comparatively. It concentrated on the usage of conceptual metaphor in AI Sayyab's Rain
Song and T. S. Eliot's Waste Land as two poles of modernism movement. All conceptual
metaphors of the two poems were extracted, studied, analysed and finally classified into
juxtaposed tables according to the suitable domain of their central concepts in order to
meet the aims of the study. The stud u ed four different strategies to analyse the data
comparatively; these strategies were the 'Up and Down', 'Personification', Animate and
Inanimate', and 'Five Source Domain'. The final result showed that conceptual metaphor
played a vital role in distinguishing the language of modern poetry. Also, the two poems
were pessimistic and metaphoric. The Rain Song involved conceptual metaphors in a
portion of 65 % of the total lines, while The Waste Land had only 39 %; this indicated
that The Rain ong dramatically exceeded The Waste Land in using this phenomenon. It
was also revealed that The Rain Song surpassed The Waste Land in six domains, but The
Waste Land exceeded only in four. In spite of the various dissimilarities between the two
poems in many aspects, several expressions, symbols, themes and styles were shared by
the two poems. Finally, this study uncover that many aspects ofintertextuality went from
The Waste Land to The Rain Song. This study was the first that purported to investigate
the usages of conceptual metaphor between The Rain Song and The Waste Land
comparatively. So, it helped in declaring the importance of this phenomenon in both
modern Arabic and English poetry. Furthermore, it elucidated the role of metaphor in
breaking the codes of the two poems and so helping in illustrating and interpreting the
implicit poetic scenes. Moreover, it paved the way for future researches to study this
phenomenon between modern Arabic and English comparatively. Finally, it contributed
to the previous studies via collecting, analysing and presenting some data about the
conceptual metaphor, its usage and its pragmatic functions in Arabic and English trying
to treat part of lacking related studies.
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