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CUrban - Analysis of the poem
by CUrban - (2013-10-01)
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There is not a title, the reader, when he look at this poem, can immediately note that it is made of 6 lines all really short. The poem express that some people say that a word stop to live at the time that it is said, but the poetess says that, in her opinion, the word begins to live in that time.                                                                                                                                In the lines 1-2 the reader can appreciate a rhyme between ‘dead’ and ‘said’;  ‘some say’ (line 3) in a speech would be at the beginning of the phrase in this case it is in a strong  position and it makes a rhyme with the final word ‘say’: indeed there are two enjambement (line 4-5 and 5-6) that made the last 3 line a single phrase. Using this figure of speech the poetess highlights the importance of the word ‘just’ and the verb ‘live’: both reinforce the opinion of  poetess and the contrast with the common one. In the line 3 there is a consonance (some, say) that also include the last word of the previous line when the reader read the poem. There is a contrast between the indeterminate, vagus and the determinate, definite: there is a passage from ‘when it is say’ to ‘that day’  or from ‘some say’ to ‘I say’. In addiction with the expression ‘begins to live’ the poetess emphasize the difference between the life and the death: one is the beginning, the start, the other is the end; this make the reader understand that the poetess sees in the words (so in literature) a beginning, a point of start and also a reason  of life and personal happiness  that ‘some’ can’t catch and appreciate.