Expression of Emotion with Plant Metaphors in English and Uzbek Poetry

Abstract

When using the names of flower species to create or describe an artistic image in poetry, the transfer of its meaning to a person is necessarily based on certain conditional similarities between a flower and a person. Such comparisons, a phenomenon of metaphorization, are also used to describe human emotions. This article discusses the “emotion is a plant” model that is observed in English and Uzbek poetry.