The object of the present work is to discuss and analyse de poem “Love for Lucinda” by lest news.

The poem focuses the readers attention thanks to its regular pattern that creates an effect of bilance and elegance. indeed, there is a simmetrical layout which resales from an anaphoric structure you to the initial line of every stanza that opens with the word love. The intelligent reader therefore understands that “Love” is rearely the key word and the teme of the all text. In addition it recalls the title.

The text a song addressed to Lucinda and once more, it underscores a reflection of love. The poem has a lirical natura and invites reflection. To tell the truth the intelligent reader may be curious to find out the identity of the adressy and the reason why the speaking voice is writing to Lucinda who’s name suggests the idea of light and therefore something that made provide a sense of direction or a guide. It follows that the analysis of the poem is meant to find out/to discover the message the speaking voice once to send Lucinda and what relationship imite had with her.

In order to reach the goal the present work will develop a structure analysis first and on a second moment will consider how connotative choises add to meaning.

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Just considering the layout the reader realises the text is arranged into three sestets that exhibit the same structure as well as the same anaphora meant to make the reader aweare that won’t to be discuss hears the mean of love

For a traction point of view, pountuation reveals is essential to understand the reason why the poem as organised the sestets into two tercets. To tell the truth in each stanza the tercets play the same rowle: the first one realise on a metaphore CHE ALLUDE A INTEEN AT at some qualities of love while the second tercet convais the possible or probable concequences of that particolular featur of love anticipated by the previous metaphore.

Before tackling with the different metaphors for love and its effect it is worth’s [vale la Pena di) considering also line length in the song. The investigation immediately makes clear that every stanza starts the second tercets with a very short line or at least one shorter than any others. What’s more the forth line of the last stanza consist of two words among witch the personal subject pronoun “you” comes to the forth front [primo piano] . Thus giving Lucinda as central and therefore core position to the lady. In so doing the speaker not only focuses the readers attention on “you” but it also gives Lucinda a privilege position and know intelligent reader can escaping notices this.

What’s more the intelligent reader should speculate on the nature of that subject pronoun because it may refears to Lucinda as well as to the reader or, last but not least accoir an impersonal meaning and therefore being meaningful to everybody. This will resalt from the next steps of analisys.

 Now moving forward with the analysis of a metaforic structure of the text the reader realises that all metaforica choices that cover the second line of each sestets provide a hilly positive connotation of love as well as beefing express an assertive tone that admits now replica “love is” “love is” and “love is”. The speaker sounds totally shouted of is statements that are made up according to the structure adjective plus noun “bright plum” bright stars”, “hay mountain”. In addiction the expressions are result of long open vowel sounds that why both the prospecting s of love and the phonological effect who might understand something more that the simple metaforica meaning that realise on the language of sense impression ( taste, site, and sow on). Ideed love is an experience that rechoirs an a dinamic opening and welcome to someone different from the subject who experiences eat. It follows that all the stilistic Choi’s is illustrated so far contribute to make, meaning more lovely. Also they have a sense of fullness to the message sent: you certainly feel suitsfied once you live a love experience.

In addiction the expressions are result of long open vowel sounds that why both the prospecting s of love and the phonological effect who might understand something more that the simple metaforica meaning that realise on the language of sense impression ( taste, site, and sow on). Ideed love is an experience that rechoirs an a dinamic opening and welcome to someone different from the subject who experiences eat. It follows that all the stilistic Choi’s is illustrated so far contribute to make, meaning more lovely. Also they have a sense of fullness to the message sent: you certainly feel suitsfied once you live a love experience.

Syntax, to contributes together with the semantic choises to add to the idea of love as a dinamic process. You can see it if you compare the structure of line three in the first two sestets. (Entrambi iniziano un gerundio che ricorda la dinamicitá) they both relays  on a progressive axpet of the verb indeed “growing” and “glowing in far saurthen skyes” convey the idea of pleasure where fa experience when he or sh is in love. The use of the progressive aspect.

In the third sestet, on the contrary, the speaker does not use the progressive aspect but adds qualities to the metaphor of love.

In particoular, the adjective “stark in a windy sky” underlines a feature of love as an experience that asks for a commitment [l’aggettivo stark puó significare desolato/ brullo—> la capacità di amare diventa un esperienza estrema]. Therefore the last sestet seems to play a working function witch comes to the for front In the end of the text.

If you carry on with the analysis of the second tercet in the different stanzas you will soon realise that each one shows the consequences or the effect of the specific idea of love expressed in the previous metaphore.

In the first sestet the effect underline by the speaker is a form of enchantment Efteling that recourse the song of the title. But the speaking voice also borns by Lucinda and the readers that once you experience love you will no longer be as you wear before the experience because you are under a “spell” and the speaking voice’s is awere (consapevole) that in awere or another It add addicted. The use of the verb taste in the imperative not only underlines de bodily aspect of love, it also lets the reader understand the feeling of loss you experience when your love is gone.

It follows that the key idea develop in the first sestet is one of love being a magic formula able to turn once life upside down.