ABSTRACT Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential, rhythmical, temporal and transmigratory images of cityscape. Design: The article applies a typology of metaphors and personification as the basis for the analysis of the soul’s presence in a city Main argument and findings: The results of the study show that named and unnamed literal, figurative and personified terms help evince the transmigration of the city’s soul. Originality and value: An implication arising from this finding is that figurative language offers considerable transfers of meaning from one epistemic element to another to enable a nuanced understanding of cityscapes. There appears an unassailable case for the union of cities and poetry as part of our scholarly studies on spiritual literacy.

中文翻译：

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彰显一座城市的灵魂

摘要 背景：本文概述了诗歌如何通过公共空间的拟人化和隐喻模式来配置城市景观的灵魂。目的：它认为这些模式在现实中是如此交织，以至于可以通过城市景观的体验性、节奏性、时间性和轮回性图像来收集对城市灵魂的感觉。设计：文章应用隐喻和拟人化的类型学作为分析城市中灵魂存在的基础 主要论点和发现：研究结果表明，有名和无名的字面、比喻和拟人化的术语有助于证明城市的轮回城市的灵魂。原创性和价值：这一发现的一个含义是，比喻语言提供了从一个认知元素到另一个认知元素的大量意义转移，从而能够对城市景观进行细致入微的理解。作为我们精神素养学术研究的一部分，城市和诗歌的结合似乎是一个无可置疑的案例。