There is selective projection from the inputs to the blend. There is a fourth mental space, the blended space, often called 'the blend.' It is in this space that the man is in the process of marrying his girlfriend. In the wedding example, the generic space has a man and a woman engaged in sustained pair bonding. There is a generic mental space, which maps onto each of the inputs and contains what the inputs have in common. For example, the girlfriend and the bride are connected in the wedding example. The study reveals that a cognitive poetic approach to literary texts is significant in disclosing the conceptual processes the human mind undergoes to sort out the composition of the text by the writer and decomposition by the readers.Ĭonceptual integration, also called 'blending,' is a basic mental operation that works over mental spaces and conforms to a set of constitutive principles: a partial cross-space mapping connects some counterparts in the input mental spaces. Within the frame of JOURNEY, a blend is constructed between the sea voyage and the abstract concept of death, which entails several conceptualizations that match with the metaphors CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF LOCATION, DEATH IS GOING TO A FINAL DESTINATION and DEATH IS REST proposed by Lakoff and Turner (1989). The analysis reveals that the poem is rich in conceptual projections and symbols, which make the whole poem an allegory for the concept of 'death'. More specifically, based on the premises of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner, 1998, 2002), the study aims to identify the conceptual devices and strategies used in the construction and interpretation of the poem. This study is a cognitive stylistic/poetic analysis of one of Turkish literature's best-known poems 'Sessiz Gemi' (Silent Ship) by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı.

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