Text Analysis

Guidelines for textual analysis:

1. Consider the title(anticipations, conjectures and predictions)about the possible content of the text;
2. Consider lay-out  the form the text appears on the page(it is diefferent from other kinds of texts.

Poetry it is arranged in different ways

      it says a lot without writing much

      it hasn't a definite meaning

There are different kinds of readers:

Empirical readers

Ideal readers (kind of reader who is able to understand all)

Intelligent readers (who reads "between lines")

Naive readers who reads in a mechanic way

Why should something that isn't          A WORD IS DEAD

animate be dead?                                    A word is dead

                                                                      When it is said             

                                                                          Some say

                                                                               I say

                                                                It just begins to live                       

                                                                            That day

It is organized in two stanzas because in the first there's a opinion of "some" people and in the second there's the poetess own opinion.

Literature is the way language is organized into possible meanings

What is a classical?

What makes a classical is the peculiar use of language that allows whatever reader of whatever time in whatever space find always new meanings in the same works.

A classic always generates itself.

The language used in literature is rather removed from other days language.

The role of the reader is an active, dynamic one, in that it contributes to make a meaning of the text.

The reader can see YES!    I think NO!

In literature there is no final arbiter there's no a precise meaning because it changes as how much are the readers.

The reader has to support his meaning looking at the text.

WORDS

To tackle with=darsi da fare

Play=opera teatrale

To make sense=capire il senso

To forego=anticipare

Raw material=materiale grezzo

Text

Co-text

Context

To support an interpretation with=supportare una interpretazione con...

To select something from something=selezionare qualcosa da qualcosa

To depend on=dipendere da...

To aim=avere lo scopo di

Meta poem=poesia che parla della poesia

To encourage= incoraggiare

To invite reflection=invitare a riflettere

To wait for; to await= aspettare

To require, to ask for =richiedere