Discourse Analysis and Poetry

This paper deals with discourse analysis linked to poetry in order to examine, within the foreign language teaching process, not only the linguistic aspect but also the psychological and the social field, and how they relate to each other. The aim is to focus on language growth viewed both as the main means of communication and as a tool which provokes thought, thus linking language to life as Leavis says: "A language is a life" (Leavis 1971: 15). Even though at a first glance poems seem to concentrate only on specific themes developed through a particular language, very often they cover a wide range of linguistic expressions used to describe many human perceptions and experience. Language and life become interchangeable.