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Roman Jakobson's verbal analysis of poetry1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Paul Werth
Paul Werth
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University of Hull
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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).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 21 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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