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This dissertation is a study of the similes, with a view to identifying the limits the existing view of the similes imposed on them and to presenting a new view of the similes on the basis of that identification. Not by unreliable, abstract theorizing but by examining ways and effects similes work in actual poems and by closely analyzing the similes in everyday life, this dissertation advances a new theory of the similes. Although they have long been recognized as a major rhetoric device, few in-depth studies of the similes have been made. Ever since Poetics and Rhetoric by Aristotle(BC 384～322), the study on the similes has been relegated to a part of the study of metaphors. After presenting the existing general views of the similes that 1) effects of the similes are clear and simple and the similes reinforce clarity and concreteness through enhanced imagery, 2) the similes are a lower rhetoric compared with the metaphors and, while the similes are primary expressions with less density, the metaphors are more refined expressions of higher level and 3) the similes and the metaphors are essentially the same and the former are amplification of the latter and the latter is a condensation of the former and, therefore, the former may be replaced with the later, this dissertation raised questions and sought to resolve them. This dissertation examined if the traditional view that the similes can be replaced with metaphors was true. Common similes in daily life and in the poems of Ki Hyungdo, Ryu Siwha and Kim Dongmyung have been extensively examined. As a result of this examination, it has been confirmed that meanings are changed when similes are replaced with metaphors. Because of the contrasting nature of the similes and the metaphors, such as vector (directionality) and naming (interpretation), and participation and possession, the similes can hardly be replaced with the metaphors. This experiment, in which the similes were replaced with metaphors, showed that poetic narrators' vectors have been lost and the poems were transformed into totally different ones. The similes induce the hearer to participate in the speaker's directionality. So the similes are persuasive. Through the study conducted in this dissertation it was found that the existing view that the similes are lower rhetoric compared with the metaphors was not correct. If the similes are considered lower rhetoric than the metaphors, simile-dominated poems would be of lower quality and, in order to upgrade the quality, the similes would be replaced with metaphors. However, there are many examples of good poems where the similes are main rhetoric and where the similes can not be replaced with the metaphors without changing the poems into different poems. What contributes to the making of good poems is not whether similes or metaphors are used but if they are used appropriately. Through many illustrations and evidence-based study, this dissertation establishes a new view of the similes and attains an in-depth understanding of poetry.
This dissertation is a study of the similes, with a view to identifying the limits the existing view of the similes imposed on them and to presenting a new view of the similes on the basis of that identification. Not by unreliable, abstract theorizing but by examining ways and effects similes work in actual poems and by closely analyzing the similes in everyday life, this dissertation advances a new theory of the similes. Although they have long been recognized as a major rhetoric device, few in-depth studies of the similes have been made. Ever since Poetics and Rhetoric by Aristotle(BC 384～322), the study on the similes has been relegated to a part of the study of metaphors. After presenting the existing general views of the similes that 1) effects of the similes are clear and simple and the similes reinforce clarity and concreteness through enhanced imagery, 2) the similes are a lower rhetoric compared with the metaphors and, while the similes are primary expressions with less density, the metaphors are more refined expressions of higher level and 3) the similes and the metaphors are essentially the same and the former are amplification of the latter and the latter is a condensation of the former and, therefore, the former may be replaced with the later, this dissertation raised questions and sought to resolve them. This dissertation examined if the traditional view that the similes can be replaced with metaphors was true. Common similes in daily life and in the poems of Ki Hyungdo, Ryu Siwha and Kim Dongmyung have been extensively examined. As a result of this examination, it has been confirmed that meanings are changed when similes are replaced with metaphors. Because of the contrasting nature of the similes and the metaphors, such as vector (directionality) and naming (interpretation), and participation and possession, the similes can hardly be replaced with the metaphors. This experiment, in which the similes were replaced with metaphors, showed that poetic narrators' vectors have been lost and the poems were transformed into totally different ones. The similes induce the hearer to participate in the speaker's directionality. So the similes are persuasive. Through the study conducted in this dissertation it was found that the existing view that the similes are lower rhetoric compared with the metaphors was not correct. If the similes are considered lower rhetoric than the metaphors, simile-dominated poems would be of lower quality and, in order to upgrade the quality, the similes would be replaced with metaphors. However, there are many examples of good poems where the similes are main rhetoric and where the similes can not be replaced with the metaphors without changing the poems into different poems. What contributes to the making of good poems is not whether similes or metaphors are used but if they are used appropriately. Through many illustrations and evidence-based study, this dissertation establishes a new view of the similes and attains an in-depth understanding of poetry.
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simile, vector, directionality, sublation, double structure of vector, participation, unsubstitutability
