Abstract: Image schema is an important connotation symbol of verbal metaphor mechanism, and it plays a characteristic role in developing process of verbal metaphor meaning. Based on thinking and comprehending of image schema of verb metaphor, we will concretely analyse cognitive semantic essence of the image schema, observe and study its subcategory manifestation and cognitive operating in verbal metaphor polysemy. We attempt to fully show active cognitive functions of image schema in mental representing and semantic constructing of word meaning, trying to give a new revelation to approaching Russian verbal metaphor and polysemy from the new angle of image schema.