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Metaphoric Language: Palliation for the Terminally Ill

Ordinary language often is an inadequate way of trying to describe what transpires in the inner life of a person (Embler, 1966). This inadequacy gains prominence when coupled with the realization that it is the inner life -the life of feelings, thoughts, and beliefs, that usually carries more importance for an individual than that individual’s outer lifethe life of actions and relations. Because of the seeming limitations of ordinary language in expressing the workings of an inner life, people have sought to enrich ordinary language with metaphoric language. Black‘s pioneering work (1%2; 1979) viewed metaphoric language as the language of insight, adding intuition, sensitivity and understanding to self-expression. The metaphoric languages of music, painting, dance, and poetry are “typical” ways that feelings, thoughts, and beliefs of the inner life find expression. The inner life also is expressed through the metaphoric language of stories, proverbs, and symbols.