Metaphor: Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric

This article works backwards by contextualizing the metaphorical explosion of metaphor, especially in last century or so, and back to Plato Aristotle, who help us see outlines metaphor relation poetics, rhetoric, philosophy politics, as well critical theoretical issues arising subsequently down present age, including views Zoltán Kövecses, Northrop Frye, Paul Ricoeur, Hegel, Shakespeare, Thomas Aquinas others. The nub matter is whether helps get at core philosophy, that truth, justice beauty, good life, it deflects deludes both. My argument they do both for even less severe on poetry poetic mimesis than Plato. friction between actual fictional worlds might be resolved least meet possible.