TITLE

“A WORD IS DEAD”

-               What do you espect the text wull be about?

Considering the title I expert the poem to be about communication bacause there is the word “word”. I expect the poem may be about a comunication is dead.

I think the poem will be about a form of communication that is no longer true.

I  expert the poem will be about a word that never use again.

Once  have read the title the reader is courious to find aout / to discover why the word is dead.

LAY – OUT AND  TEXT STRUCTURE   STRUTTURA DEL TESTO

Considering the LAY-OUT the reader realizes (si rende conto) / can see the text is organise into/ is arranged into organised into two stanzas  of three lines each.

The poem consists of six lines organized into two tercets, therefore  (perciò) he would like to understand / lind out the reason vity the poet / poetes has arranged the message into two stanzas and last but not least the function of each stanzas.

A Word Is Dead    ( i titoli si scrivono con le iniziali maiuscole)

A word is dead

When it is said

Some say

I say it just

Begins to live

That day

ANALISI DENOTATIVA  (esprime di che cosa parla la poesia)

The poem espresse two different points of view about the life of a word: some people think that whenever you say a word it dies,the poetes belives thet when someone says a word it start to live.

The denotative analysis makes the reader understands thet the function of the first stanza is to report the common ideas about the life of a word; the function of the second tercets is to report the poetes opinion. It follows that/ As a result / as a consequence the intelligent reader  understand that the by out has been conceived (concepito) to opposit / contrastino ideas about the nature of words.

CONNOTATIVE ANALYSIS

-               The poem his got the following rhyms scheme: AAB CDB

-               The first and second lines are run on lines

-               The function of the comma is sto create a suspence

-               Sintax is turned upside down in the two tercets: the first tercet makes of a run-on-line in the first two lines, in the second      tercet what takes place is exactly the opposite.