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What does Roman Jakobson mean about poetry: "the projection of the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection to the axis of combination"?
I've been reading about Roman Jakobson's definition of poetry and I'm a bit confused by this phrase: "the projection of the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection to the axis of combination". Can you explain what that means?
Sure. Jakobson's idea is that the poetic function of language involves creating connections between words based on their similarity or equivalence, rather than their referential meaning. This shift from selection to combination means that a poem isn't just a series of individual words, but a new creation that emerges from the relationships between them.