ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains what is special about the language of poetry and, in particular, what does it mean to use language creatively. It reviews the subject of poetic licence, and to the even broader concept of linguistic foregrounding, or artistic obtrusion, and saw the interpretation of poetry mainly as making sense of foregrounded aspects of language. The book dealt with various kinds of foregrounding and, repetitions of words and sounds. It showed the conventional foregrounding of patterns in verse. The book also explained special modes of meaning, and the part which literal absurdity plays in their operation. Finally it gave the foregrounding of situation and, the foregrounding of ambiguity in puns and other uses of multiple meaning. Certain themes have assumed prominence as this study has progressed.
