By Elena Semino
This can be an interdisciplinary and useful method of the research of poetry which specializes in textual content worlds, particularly the contexts, eventualities or kinds of truth that readers build of their interplay with the language of texts.
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Conversely, it has also been claimed that such poems establish a relationship of solidarity and intimacy between writers or fictional speakers on the one hand, and readers on the other (Halliday 1985: 228; Wales 1989: 228; Cook 1994: 13). The two arguments are in fact the opposite sides of the same coin. e. it is expected to reflect the speaker's judgement of the addressee's present situation and state of knowledge (Hawkins 1978: 97). In those cases where the attribution of definiteness does not seem to take into account the reader's actual familiarity with the referents, definite reference can be interpreted as either addresser-orientated or addressee-orientated.
The Flea' dramatizes a conventional poetic situation, in which an eager (male) lover tries to dissuade a reluctant (female) partner from her coy attitude to sexual behaviour. The well-known argument is that the woman's refusal to agree to sexual intercourse is unjustified, since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea, who has been sucking blood from them both: Marke but this flea, and marke in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is: It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled bee; As in Frost's poem, content and coding time are marked as simultaneous by the occurrence of present tenses, while the proximal time deictic now also seems to signal that the sucking of the addressee's blood on the part of the flea takes place during the unfolding of the speaker's utterance.
1985: 272). This is the case with the cottage mentioned in the example below: (13) On my way to town, I stopped to look at a very nice Georgian cottage. The presupposition of existence and unique identifiability in context which is in built in definite meaning does not therefore apply to indefinite reference, which is used to assert rather than presuppose the existence of referents within the relevant universe of discourse. This is the case, for example, with the setting and the main character of the scene evoked by the following poem: A nun in a supermarket Standing in the queue Wondering what it's like To buy groceries for two.