ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Grammatical Relation, Assonance
25 Feb 2013
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Language texts are a weaving together of words. Contexts: when units or parts of a whole get woven together. Poets naturally exaggerate this element of connectedness in language so that significant relationships between words can be reveals and/or emphasized, in the service, again, of a charming or a riddling reading experience. There are all sorts of things that a poet can do to draw our attention to the relationships between words. We"re calling them devices of versification and here are a few: Any repeated combinations of letters: alliteration, assonance, consonance. The meaning of a word in a poem is determined less by its dictionary definition (a single world like. Stage or store can have many different definitions in a comprehensive dictionary) than by the words around it. Every word in a poem enters into relation with the other words in that poem. These relations can be several kinds: thematic (or meaning, phonemic relation, grammatical relation.
