The Influence of the National-Cultural Image of the World on the Construction of Metaphors in the Poetic Discourse

Abstract

The poetic language of Federico García Lorca amazes the reader’s imagination with the richness of images with the outward simplicity and clarity of style. Lorca’s poems simultaneously reveal to us both the national and cultural specifics of the Spanish linguistic picture of the world, and the ways of cognition and reflection of reality by the author, his assessment of the phenomena of this reality from the standpoint of the aesthetic ideal. One of the ‘keys’ of the secret of the phenomenal success of Lorca’s poetry is its metaphor city, the semantic aesthetics of which is revealed only in the context of not only the poems themselves, but also in the context of Spanish culture as a whole. The metaphor, we emphasize once again, is one of the most mysterious phenomena of language, the intuitive comprehension of which is inherent only in true poets. In a metaphor, reality escapes, as if hiding from thought, and then a deep and urgent question begins to arise before the researcher about the role of metaphor in cognition. In the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, the ability of metaphor to clearly reveal the features of national culture characterizes the Spanish linguistic consciousness and the Spanish linguistic personality. The humanities are armed with modern scientific research tools at the present stage of development and lay the foundation for studying the role of metaphor in understanding the essence of Federico Garcia Lorca's work, as well as its relationship and interaction with reality, thinking and consciousness.