3.1. The typical metaphorical images of love and lovers in love songs in the
3.1.1.1. Love is a concrete and real object
Kovecses (2002:4) proposed that in the majority of cases, the roles of source and target domains are irreversible since our experience lays a foundation for the comprehension of more abstract domains. ―Love‖ is an abstract emotion but thanks
to metaphor – an effective language tool, it turns out a concrete thing that we can possess, can use senses to perceive. Therefore, we can conceptualize this knowledge to reason for ―love is a concrete thing‖ metaphor.
Relationships as real objects are perceived to develop in a natural order from infancy to maturity. They are born, they grow, they mature, they require nurturing, and they can wither and die. They are like ―love‖. They have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to receive knowledge of things in the world around.
The heart can use its‘ eyes to catch the images of love in these examples below:
Here's the morning that my heart had seen
Here's the morning that just had to come through
(The Carpenters /Those Good Old Dreams )
The eyes of the heart are really sensitive and gentle to feel everything in the world, especially the changes in love stories: love can be a pristine and fresh morning with the exciting new feeling and full emotion of the lovers. It also can be a sunset when the souls are closed and blue. It is not easy to have the sophistication in ones‘ mind unless they are in the real love.
Love is a part of mental life. It is familiar and essential as a part of body.
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
(Celine Dion - Because you love me)
A imagine is so touching that it can make everyone arouse strong feelings of sympathy:
lovers are the eyes and the light of each other no matter how dark it is and how blind the lovers‘ eyes are. An eye is enough for them to go to the end of life. He is every reason, every hope, and every dream she has ever had, and no matter what happens to them in the future, everyday they are together is the greatest day of my life
In feeling of lover, the heart is a melody, sound of which only lovers can hear:
Take my heart, don't lose it
Listen to your heart (Modern Talking- Cherry lady)
It's hard to find words to tell how much lovers mean to each other. Maybe, the man doesn't say anything at all. But the girl will understand, will realize what his heart is
whispering.
We can see sweet taste of love through the song lyrics in English You'll always be a part of me
If you should find you miss the sweet and tender love we used to share (Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me)
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. That is the message lovers want to send to each other ―You'll always be a part of me‖. That part belongs to body and it is indispensable in life.―You‖ are all what ―I‖ live for.―You‖ and ―I‖ are growing up and together go through the storms of life. My love for you is like a sweet and tender candy both taste. That love experiences the wonderful memories which make their love be a beautiful never-ending story.
Love can be the concrete things such as: the voice when a person couldn't speak, the shoulder to cry on in the moment of disappointment, the strength or power to make lovers stronger;. Here are some other examples:
You were my strength when I was weak You were my voice when I couldn't speak (Celine Dion because you love me) Chiquitita, tell me the truth
I'm a shoulder you can cry on
And your love's a blown out candle (ABBA - Chiquitita) You cut away the heart of my life (Rockwell- knife) You're the power and I'm in it
I've been a miner for a heart of gold(Neil Young - Heart of Gold) Ooh you're a holiday, every day, such a holiday
Now it's my turn to say, and I say you're a holiday (Bee Gees - Holiday Lyrics)
Being deeply loved by someone gives her/him strength and loving someone deeply gives courage and power to overcome every difficulty and challenge in life. It is love that givesus strength to transform pain to power. In the hardest situations, when
a person falls down to an abyss, the other will find the way to save her. That strong person can break through the walls, love you through the pain, pull you from the dark life, and is a reliable shoulder to lean and cry.