people in the community (Kovecses, 2010). This matter is once again discussed in the paper where metaphorical expressions of love in English and Vietnamese modern poetry are investigated to find out how novel the poetic metaphors of love are in each language. Then, they are compared to draw out the universalities and variations of these metaphors between the two languages, English and Vietnamese. Although there are several kinds of love, our investigation focuses on just romantic love which is defined as a mix of emotional and sexual desire (Karandashev, 2015).
Poetic metaphorTraditional views treating metaphor at linguistic levels show that metaphors in literature are more creative, unique, impressive, interesting, plentiful, and complex Abstract: The conceptual metaphor theory states that poetic metaphors are in fact conventional metaphors but they are made novel via four techniques -elaboration, extending, questioning, and combination. Based on this sense, our paper focuses on examining and comparing poetic metaphors of romantic love in English to those in Vietnamese. Contrastive analysis is the main method applied in the study with the data for investigation coming from English and Vietnamese love poems. Also, the metaphor identification procedures by Pragglejaz Group and its extension are employed to minimize the risk of impulsiveness in metaphor collection process. Our findings reveal that the novelty of love metaphors in poetry does not lie in concepts but in linguistic expressions thanks to the four above techniques, among which combination is employed much more than the others in both languages. Furthermore, both conceptual and linguistic metaphors of love are found to be similar between English and Vietnamese poetry, which is supposed to result from the universality of metaphor. However, variations of cultures, lifestyles, and thought bring about some differences of love metaphors between these two languages.
POETIC METAPHORS OF LOVE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE