Puns: serious wordplay

Read, Sophie

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511988806.011

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But To the Dead Tree What Doth Boot1

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“…Wimsatt's discussion of the logical and the alogical in rhyme supplies a useful parallel: 'The words of a rhyme, with their curious harmony of sound and distinction of sense, are an amalgam of the sensory and the logical, or an arrest and precipitation of the logical in sensory form; they are the ikon in which the idea is caught.' 26 or an 'idea of language as somehow magical, sacramental', 27 Greville sees the contingent similarity of words in rhetorical figures as a mark of the Fall: 'Like voice, and eccho ioyn'd, yet diuers things'.…”

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