Abstract
Conceptual metaphor is the structures that linguistically work to denotes metaphors. To the researcher's best knowledge, conceptual metaphor has been tackled from different perspectives; Still few studies have dealt with conceptual metaphor in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The study deals with the types of conceptual metaphor of life in Emily Dickinson's My life had stood- a loaded gun. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the types of conceptual metaphors of life in the target poem. To this end, the poem was purposefully and analyzed based on Lackoff and Johnson's (2003) model of conceptual metaphor theory. The findings revealed that there were 2 structural metaphors and 4 ontological metaphors.
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