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Metaphors, which are thought to be the products of the genius particularly, have been used for decorative purposes since Aristotle. However, Lakoff and Johnson's groundbreaking work Metaphors We Live By (1980) has revolutionized the concept of metaphor, and the authors have argued that metaphor is actually a means of cognitive and analytical comparison which reveals human thought in order to understand the world. Metaphor bears richness, variety and innovation. This paper benefits from Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory in order to interpret the metaphorical reflections in the Irish poet W.B. Yeats's imagist poetry. When producing metaphors one can benefit from the associations of target domain and source domain, thus, abstract concepts are described via concrete concepts. Hence there is mapping between two domains: the abstract target domain and the concrete source domain. W. B. Yeats worked as a Member of Congress in the Irish Free State in 1922 and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. He is known to be the cultural leader and a great poet in the 20th century. Yeats describes abstract concepts through symbols in his imagistic poems, which are actually similar to the mapping between the abstract and concrete in the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. In this paper source domain and target domains are determined in 5 selected imagist poems in order to understand how Yeats transforms complex abstract concepts into concrete concepts in his mind and to discuss the mapping between target and source domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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