And of course, poetry that is primarily "paraphrasable" is at best boring. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
He made perfect sense, but in a way that had no paraphrasable meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, what do you know?] Reference
A poem is a free-associative subspecies of the riddle; it rigorously avoids the paraphrasable. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)] Reference
Nor will it be right to claim that sentences like "if p, q" are generally paraphrasable as "p only if q". From Wordnik.com. [Necessary and Sufficient Conditions] Reference
Even when the lyrics as such don't necessarily make paraphrasable sense, I know exactly what he is talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
He showed that every word and letter was in its fit place, and that this fitness had a necessary, demonstrable relation to the paraphrasable content of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Though many of our claims about musical works may be paraphrasable into claims about sets of possible performances, some seem to make intractable reference to works. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
It is the materiality of the object, he tells us, the sonority of the language, the smoothness of the marble, or the slick density of the oil paint, that marks the part of Earth in it; while it is the semiotic features of the work, the meanings and meaningfulness - what is paraphrasable in the verse, the functions of the building, the object imitated by the painting - that indicate the part of World. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
I also think the idea that poetry primarily conveys thoughts or ideas, which are paraphrasable by the critic, is problematic. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
I’ve always been intrigued by Ashbery; his poems insist that you re-invent yourself as a reader, starting by putting aside your most central readerly assumption, that a piece of writing ought to have a paraphrasable content. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
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