Conceptual metaphor and image schema in the poems of Ibn Khafajha

Metaphor in terms of innovation and imagination Charisma that creates reflection in the lives of listeners, it's a wide scope for surprises and speech competition. The importance of metaphor is very high in poetry, so the number of literary theorists believes that language is just "imagination and metaphor". Cognitive linguistics is one of new schools considers the metaphor. In this view, the metaphor is a mental lingual process. They analyze metaphor as a semantic topic in memory. The metaphorical terms, based on data in memory recover in Long-term memory. This system considers any understanding abstract concepts as a more concrete and practical concepts metaphoric one. Ibn Khafajha is one of artistic poets who create conceptual metaphor and conceptual schema as one of the critical infrastructure of the metaphors in his artistic odes. His metaphor is a powerful tool to express complex ideas, vague and far-fetched using the experience of poetry and poets are the best way to fruition. Some of his metaphors was created through conventional concepts and automatic language and others by extending the conventions, in the guise of prose and on several occasions innovative and creative metaphors. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to discover the secret of survival metaphors.