The Basis of Robert Bridges’ Metaphoric System in his Late Lyrics

Abstract

The author’s metaphorical system is an important feature of an individu-al style. The metaphor studies provide information of peculiarities of the au-thor’sconcepts sphere or his mental picture of the world. The article considers the metaphorical system features in the late lyrics of Robert Bridges, the poet-laureate, a prominent representative of the English poetry of the late 19th –ear-ly 20th centuries. The article focuses on the most frequent concept-targets and concept-sources, namely those phenomena that have attracted the writer’s greatest attention and, to his mind, need to be rethought and concepts that are more intuitively clear in the author’s opinion.As a result of the metaphor analys of the poems by Robert Bridges, the information about the peculiarities of the author’s concepts sphere realized in his late lyrics has been received and the frequency core among the concept-sources and concept-targets has been identified and described. On the basis of the obtained data, the article has compared the peculiarities of the metaphoric interpretation in R. Bridges’ late and early lyrics, identified similar features and differences, as well as made conclusions about changes in the author’s mental picture of the world.