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A Word is Dead
by - (2013-10-01)
Up to 4 BLS. Textual Analysis. More texts for Practice. 
Title
The reader who reads this title might think that the poem talks about a word that nowadays is not used anymore. There is a personification where the word is compared to a person. The intelligent reader could ask himself why the word is dead. Therefore, the reader will be curious why the word is dead.
Layout
The layout shows that it is a poem. The poem is organized in six lines arranged in tercets; it follows that the reader might be interested in discovering/finding out the single tercet.
Description
In the first tercet the writer says that when somebody speaks and uses his word as soon as he uses it, the word dies.
In the second tercet the narrative voice changes into first person narrator. The first person narrator expresses a very different opinion.
It goes without saying that the structure of the poem is conceived to give a different opinion about the life of the word. Indeed the function of the first tercet is to convey a point of view opposite to the second one.
It is a discussion about the cycle of life of a word.