Did Analytical Philosophy Kill Metaphysics?

The story that is told of 20th-century analytical philosophy is that it has destroyed metaphysics. The early tradition of analytical philosophy initially attacked speculative metaphysical questions as meaningless, and due to this, many philosophers proposed alternative systems regarding metaphysical analysis. However, later down the timeline, metaphysics had not completely disappeared and instead re-emerged in a different form. The real question regarding analytical philosophy and metaphysics, then, is not whether or not analytical philosophy has killed metaphysics, but whether analytical philosophy has reformed and reconstructed metaphysics. This essay will argue for the idea that analytical philosophy did not wipe out metaphysics, but instead reformed the metaphysical method and justified its speculation through logical analysis, linguistic analysis, and scientific analysis. What seemed to be the death of a branch of philosophy was indeed just its rebirth.