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Conceptual Metaphors In Dream Theatre

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.1 The Data Here are the metaphors which are found in Dream Theatre’s selected lyrics. The data are grouped based on the type of metaphor. The metaphorical expressions in these three following tables are printed in bold. 4.1.2 Conceptual Metaphor 1 Don 't tell me what 's in Tell me how to write Song: As I Am, Line: 1-2 2 It is over your head Song: As I Am, Line: 8 3 Feeling like the underdog Song: As I Am, Line: 13,34 4 Still running uphill Song: As I Am, Line: 22 5 Swimming against the current Song: As I Am, Line: 23 6 I wish I weren 't so fucked Song: As I Am, Line: 24 7 You cannot touch the way I play Song: As I Am, Line: 30 8 I 've been wasting my breath on you Song: As I Am, Line: 37 9 Open minds …show more content…

Conceptual metaphor turns out to be the most dominant type because theoretically it is the simplest case of metaphor. In this type, there is only one idea being compared with other idea. Most metaphors which appear in everyday conversation are conceptual metaphor. Mixed metaphor ranks second; it constitutes one third of the overall percentage. Mixed metaphor is more complicated than conceptual metaphor as it applies more than one metaphor to describe one thing. However, many of it appears in the lyrics, comparing such phenomena of life as love, sex, philosophy and death. Poetic metaphor appears as the least type as it is the most complicated one. It consists of a series of metaphors with one principal subject and one or more subsidiary subjects. There is more than one comparison in a poetic metaphor to describe one thing; each comparison may be either conceptual or mixed metaphor. In other words, poetic metaphor is established from one or more conceptual or mixed metaphors. Dream Theatre lyrics are dominated by metaphors. A conclusion can be drawn that metaphor plays its role in this lyrics, not only to convey and decorate ideas, but also to arouse emotional feelings of the

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