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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"?
That makes sense. So would you say that poetry is more about how words are used than what they mean?
That's definitely part of it. According to Jakobson, poetry is about foregrounding the language itself and playing with its conventions and structures. This is why we sometimes speak of the "music" of poetry, and why even poems that don't rhyme or have traditional meter can still be considered poetic.