Textuality » 3LSCA InteractingGPiu - A word is dead 22/11/2019
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TITLE : A WORD IS DEAD
A word is dead
The reader is curious to discover/ find out why a “word is dead”.
DENOTATIVE ANALYSIS
The poem express two different point of view about the life of a word : some people think that whenever you say a word it dies, the poetess believes that someone says a word it starts to live.
The function of the first stanza is to report common people's idea about the life of a word, the function of the second tercets is to report the poetess' opininion. It follows that/ as a result/as a consequence the intelligent reader understands that the layout has been conceived to present the opposite/contrasting ideas about the nature of words.
CONNOTATIVE ANALYSIS
The poem has got the following scheme. Syntax is turned upside down in the two tercets : the first tercets makes use of a run-on-line in the first two lines, in the second tercets what takes place is exactly the opposite.
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