The Function Of Poetry Is To Point

Semantics, Or The Study Of Meaning, Remained Undeveloped, While Phonetics Made Rapid Progress And Even Came To Occupy The Central Place In The Scientific Study Of Language.

The Poetic Function Is The Set Towards The Message Itself, Focus On The Message For Its Own Sake Which By Promoting The Palpability Of Signs, Deepens The Fundamental Dichotomy Of Signs And Objects.

It Is Once Again The Vexing Problem Of Identity Within Variety; Without A Solution To This Disturbing Problem There Can Be No System, No Classification.

Now The Identification Of Individual Sounds By Phonetic Observation Is An Artificial Way Of Proceeding.

A Linguist Deaf To The Poetic Functions Of Language And A Literary Scholar Indifferent To Linguistics Are Equally Flagrant Anachronisms.