S/P/92. What does Nietzsche mean by the ‘forgetting’ of metaphor?

The key philosophic underpinning for this essay comes from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche offers a remarkable and sustained defence of the place of metaphor in culture and as this paper explains, there is a vast explanation as to why Nietzsche believes society has forgotten its original metaphor. The paper explores the way in which original metaphor began and how it was originally lost. it therefore explores the ideologies of religion and metaphysical thought.