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GDaniotti - Text Analysis - First step
by GDaniotti - (2008-10-16)
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1st title: Scaffolding

Conjectures:

§          The definition of scaffolding is: a system of scaffolds

Other possible meanings:

object; physical object

artifact; artefact

instrumentality; instrumentation

system

 

§          The writer could start from scaffolding and extend himself towards other topics.

 

2nd title:Digging

Conjectures:

§          The definition of digging is: the act of digging

Other possible meanings:

act; human action; human activity

activity

creation; creative activity

creating by removal

excavation,

 

§          I think it could speak about a digger and his difficult life.

§          In a figurative language it might tell about a digging in somebody's past.

 

3rd title: Se questo è un uomo

Conjectures:

§          It might be about one's man story.

§          The story might be happy or sad.

§          It might be autobiographic.

 

4th title: The Dove

Conjectures:

§         The definition is: any of numerous small pigeons.

Other possible meanings:

 

object; physical object

living thing; animate thing

organism; being

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna

chordate

vertebrate; craniate

bird

gallinaceous bird; gallinacean

columbiform bird

pigeon

 

-an emblem of peace

 

psychological feature

cognition; knowledge; noesis

process; cognitive process; mental process; operation; cognitive operation

basic cognitive process

representational process

symbol; symbolization; symbolisation; symbolic representation

emblem; allegory

 

-flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

substance; matter

solid

food

meat

bird; fowl

poultry

 

-a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum

object; physical object

natural object

constellation

 

-someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations

object; physical object

living thing; animate thing

organism; being

person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul

adult; grownup

pacifist; pacificist; disarmer

 

 

§         In my opinion the poet/ poetess could talk about  freedom.

§         The dove might also suggest purity because it is white.

§         The poem might talk about  peace, in fact the dove is symbol of peace.

§         The dove can be connected to  a constellation and so the text can also talk about   something in the sky.

§         The definition says also that you can refer the noun to someone how prefers negotiations to armed conflict.

Maybe the writer tells about someone's life