Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:34:11 -0500
From: albright-AT-world.std.com (R.H. Albright)
Subject: PLC: reiteration and change


A classic example of this, of course, is that "tyger, tyger burning bright"
in Blake's poem. And the way he shifts the last refrain from "Could frame
thy fearful symmetry?" to "Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" is an
interesting twist, as the poem has progressed and now ends.

In the meantime, the tyger has been "built up" first with shoulders, art,
sinews... heart, hand, feet...

Then hammer, chain, furnace for "brain"...

And the enigmatic question,

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" acts as a nice refrain.

        ---Randall Albright

                http://world.std.com/~albright/

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>>But, George, "iterance" means repetition.  Iteration is the process of
>>repeating. Reiteration is the process of repeating again.  How can one
>>reiterate something when one hasn't even iterated it yet?
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>You are right (naturlich), but I still get a sense of change out of it. If
>there are fifteen iterations of x, do they not occur in changed
>circumstances (time, for instance, as in "I'm going to keep doing this
>until I get it right")?
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>Re-iterate, as I am understanding you, is redundant (regardless of how
>frequently used, or as they say "irregardless" of how. . . ).
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