Roman Jakobson's verbal analysis of poetry
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 12 (1) , 21-73
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700004795
Abstract
I. …any noticeable reiteration of the same grammatical concept becomes an effective poetic device. Any unbiased, attentive, exhaustive, total description of the selection, distribution and interrelation of diverse morphological classes and syntactic constructions in a given form surprises the examiner himself by unexpected, striking symmetries and antisymmetries, balanced structures, efficient accumulation of equivalent forms and salient contrasts,… by rigid restrictions in the repertory of morphological and syntactic constituents used in the poem, eliminations which… permit us to follow the masterly interplay of the actualized constituents. Let us insist on the strikingness of these devices (Jakobson, 1968: 602–3).Keywords
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- Shakespeare's Verbal Art in "Th' Expense of Spirit"Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH ,1970