Poems written in the first person, poems that contain passages of conversation or dialogue, and narrative poems all rely on their readers capacity to process discourse.Discourse features in the texts of those poems features such as temporal and spatial reference, narrative framing, and the strategic use of direct speech inevitably affect the way readers receive the central themes.Recent developments in linguistic theory, including developments that address discourse structure, thus offer literary scholars new tools for approaching a richer understanding of those poems. In "Poetic Voices,"...
Poems written in the first person, poems that contain passages of conversation or dialogue, and narrative poems all rely on their readers capacity ...
