As Japanese, Basho aware of the environment and the artificial house of Japan. When he wrote it, it is a feeling of a certain Japanese beauty. According to
Lakoff metaphor in this poem based on experience of ideas, morals, or concepts. The metaphor he wrote is based on a experience of ontological backgroud, that
serves various purposes entities bounded by a surface 2003: 26, which is zen way of life.
The roof is a metaphor of the absolute changes, which is the karma or the natural condition of existence that is bound in the circle of birth and death, or the
changes that can not be changed Suzuki, 1988: 231. The roof is covering the prostitues, pictured as something used for protection. The roof normally used for
it in every civilization. It is a natural condition, like the absolute changes is a natural condition. Therefore the roof is considered as a metaphor of the absolute
changes.
1.3 Ontological
Metaphors in the Basho’s poem of the dragonfly
Lakoff wrote in his book how orientational metaphors give meanings in action. Lakoff, 2003: 25 This dynamic animate dragonfly is metaphors for living
being. That the metaphor in this poem is the dragonfly, it is a metaphor for a dynamic being that always makes a move. In the context Japanese Zen, mind is
dynamic and naturally fluid, and when it stops it loses its fluidity. When mind stops in concepts or worldly business it loses its fluidity. Zen is experienced when
the mind does not stop with anything Suzuki, 1988: 103. Like the dragonfly and the grass blade. Basho wrote about the grass blade as the metaphor for the world,
the concepts, and the thoughts. They are the things for the mind to hold on.
Zen is experienced when the mind does not stop with anything Suzuki, 1988: 103. Like the dragonfly and the grass blade. Basho wrote about the grass
blade as the metaphor for the world, the concepts, and the thoughts. They are the things for the mind to hold on.
It is told that the dragonfly tried to land on a grass leaf, and it tried to hold on to the grass, but it failed to hold on. Zen is experienced when the mind
does not stop. The dragonfly is the metaphor for the mind. What the mind usually does is trying to stop to things, to hold on to it, but it seems to be failed to hold on
it is written as when the dragonfly failed to hold on to the grass blade.
1.4 Ontological
Metaphors in the Basho’s cherry trees poem In this poem the cherry trees do not only appear as an imagery but also as
a metaphor. The cherry trees considered as a spiritual time signal of Japanese people. Ontologically in this metaphor, the cherry trees is an existence that
naturally changing. Basho saw it as the basis subtance, the subtance of changing experience. From its blossom until its fall cherry trees appear in this poem as a
metaphor. In the villa of persimmons, Basho found cherry trees. For Japanese people
cherry trees and cherry blossom are the metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life Bowring, 1993: 13, and it inspired him, when he meditated the ephemeral of the
time. In Zen, when someone experienced samadhi, he found the understanding
that time that past and future is relative. Time is categorized in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, nano seconds until unlimited. The distance
