Metaphor in Cankar's Podobe iz sanj has two origins: Biblical and liturgical symbolism, as well as beauty metaphors that illustrate the idea of redemptive suffering. But both have been superceded by those of terror and war, so that a process of decomposition of the beauty metaphor and symbolism is noticeable. In addition to the horror of war, the metaphorisation of the word and of the spiritual and emotional layers of the interior life is also noticeable. The paper analyses metaphors relating to bottom, house and mirror, adjectival and verbal metaphors, and metaphors dealing with war, horror and death.
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