Download or read book Lexical Ambiguity in Poetry written by Soon Peng Su and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines definitions of lexical ambiguity and presents a re-definition through a semantic-pragmatic approach. It analyses the use of ambiguous words in poetry, in particular through the use of examples from the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. It also discusses the value of lexical ambiguity by showing how ambiguous words are related to ambiguity in poems as a whole.