Metaphorical taxonomy in La estación violenta (1958), rhetorical orientation towards the progressive interpretation of humanity

Del Aguila J.M.D. · America sin Nombre (2020) · DOI: 10.14198/amesn.2020.24-2.03

Resumen

This paper takes as reference the poems «No Exit?» and «The River» from The Violent Station (1958), to demonstrate that this literary work inserts the reflective thought that humanity must prioritize their personal projects, preserve them and develop them in as much as possible. This ideological orientation of the author will be verified through the rhetorical interpretation of this object of analysis, which is valid from the taxonomy of the types of metaphor. This theoretical proposal was formulated by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in his book Metaphors We Live By (1995) and has been rigorously studied by researcher Camilo Fernandez Cozman. Among its approaches, the one that will be used is the one that seeks the distinction and articulation between megametaphors (general notions that, at the same time, conform the orientational, ontological and structural metaphors) and specific metaphors (particular notions that derive from megametaphors). This work has the purpose of arguing with epistemological property the literary work of the Mexican writer Octavio Paz. In the same way, the concepts of interlocutors and worldview are confronted as support to strengthen this peculiar ideological directionality of the poems.

Instituciones: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú