A WORD IS DEAD – ANALYSIS

Just considering the title the intelligent reader finds some curiosity that pushes him/her to make sense of the speakers point of view. Indeed, why do you say that word might die? What’s the point of using a personification to refer to a word. The two questions are a sufficient reason to go on reading the text, but simply giving a glans to the layout you can easily realize the poem is arranged into two different parts still following the same patterns of two tersest that play a different function. The reading experiences allows the reader to find out the structure of the poem helps to convey to different opinions about the nature and life of word. The speaking voice seems to be taking distances from the opinion expressed by the “some say” of the first stanza and underline that she puts the subject and the verb at the end of the stanza, this throwing the readers attention on the opinion of an unidentified group of people. Therefore such choice in word order the speaking voice different opinions