Chapter 6. Taking a poem to pieces

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Editor’s preface xiii
5. Introduction xix
6. Part I. Education, language teaching and stylistics
7. Chapter 1. Linguistics and the teaching of English 3
8. Chapter 2. The integration of language and literature in the English curriculum 11
9. Chapter 3. Language awareness in six easy lessons 27
10. Chapter 4. Large corpus research and foreign language teaching 33
11. Part II. Linguistic stylistics
12. Chapter 5. When is a poem like a sunset? 43
13. Chapter 6. Taking a poem to pieces 57
14. Chapter 7. A technique of stylistic description 69
15. Chapter 8. Lines about “Lines” 95
16. Chapter 9. The linguistic basis of style 109
17. Part III. Style and discourse
18. Chapter 10. Mirror for a text 127
19. Chapter 11. Poetic discourse 157
20. Chapter 12. The exploitation of meaning 177
21. Chapter 13. Fictional worlds revisited 209
22. Chapter 14. “Passion speechlesse lies” 227
23. Chapter 15. Coda 251
24. References 271
25. Index of Authors, Names and Titles 277
26. Index of Topics 279