The Use of Metaphors in Early Poetry

There is a view that metaphor is simply a way of heightening orna peech. Vico says, if you look at what ancient speech is like, you will find the extreme frequency of metaphors in it indicates that metaphor was a perfectly normal method of using words for the people of that time. To primitives, anger really did resemble blood boiling round our hearts more than it does to us now. Only they talk about teeth of ploughs, mouths of rivers, lips of vases, necks of land and veins of vein of minerals,. bowels of the earth.