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...like a plastic bag drifting through the wind...
-Katy Perry, Firework
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sɪˈmæntɪks/ Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words. For example, "destination" and "last stop" technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.
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International Translation Day is an international day recognising translation professionals. It is on 30 September, which is the day of the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators.[1]
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For I myself not only admit but freely proclaim that in translating from the Greek I render sense for sense and not word for word, except in the case of the Holy Scriptures, where even the order of the words is a mystery.
St. Jerome
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A poem should not mean
But be.
Archibald MacLeish
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Haiku poems often feature the juxtaposition of two images.
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The "Song of Amergin" and its origins remain mysteries for the ages. The ancient poem, perhaps the oldest extant poem to originate from the British Isles, or perhaps not, was written by an unknown poet at an unknown time at an uncertain location. The unlikely date 1268 BC was furnished by Robert Graves,...
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Notes: Macleish is making compound couplets in the poem his famous comment on meaning is from, couplets which are like compound words...each couplet has its meaning, conceit, sense-such is semantics...don't know but poems ARE translations, wordy synonyms of meanings...Macleish was influenced by Japanese Haiku...bbk...fact check...yes, 'tis so...first day of poetry class it was Haiku, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, petals in the Metro, and such...I wrote Sonnets that rhymed...curious though, compound couplets are the stuff of the Song of Amergin...anyway, I drift...
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