Abstract
ABSTRACT Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential, rhythmical, temporal and transmigratory images of cityscape. Design: The article applies a typology of metaphors and personification as the basis for the analysis of the soul’s presence in a city Main argument and findings: The results of the study show that named and unnamed literal, figurative and personified terms help evince the transmigration of the city’s soul. Originality and value: An implication arising from this finding is that figurative language offers considerable transfers of meaning from one epistemic element to another to enable a nuanced understanding of cityscapes. There appears an unassailable case for the union of cities and poetry as part of our scholarly studies on spiritual literacy.
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