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I not sure if it's really the opposite, but what is the proper word to describe the type of poetic, hypothetical abstraction that follows?
"If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear"
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Dear BY: the closest I can come is transmutation, and that's not very good.
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the proper word to describe the type of poetic, hypothetical abstraction that follows?
I'd like to offer incomprehensible.
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Thanks Vlad!  Are you talking about my (confessedly) weird description of the technique used in the line, or Shelley's line itself?
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Is this anastrophe? (parsing...)
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Personification would be ascribing human characteristics to the leaf. This is ascribing leaf characteristics to the human. That what you're looking for, by?
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Pour Bill: Cheers. Transmutation is pretty much on par with 'transformation' too. I actually think there is a word for a human turning into or described as an inanimate or abstract object though. Any ideas
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I actually think there is a word for a human turning into an inanimate or abstract object though. Any ideas? - bellyouth
the secret word is TRANSFIGURATION is the secret word
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Not to sound flippant, but it seems "depersonification" would fit fairly well. i suppose an argument could be made for "objectification", but that carries different undertones.
i'd tend to agree with it being some form of prosopopeia ~ can someone break "prosopopeia" down and exchange the part that means "human" to something meaning "inanimate"?
EDIT: i wouldn't agree with transfiguration, milo, based on the fact that it suggests a necessary component of glorification/exaltation, whereas in the passage BY cites the speaker is clearly attempting to remove himself from the glory of being human.
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