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Ambiguity,d or phrase could have more than one interpretation — and if each interpretation could possibly make sense within the context of the poem — ambiguity can be used to great effect. Although ambiguity in sign language poems can arise from established, frozen signs with more than one meaning (just as in

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Metaphor and Allusion,emes were used as metaphors and symbols for other ideas, and in this chapter we will now consider poetic metaphor in general. Earlier chapters have described several different ways in which poetic language becomes ‘foregrounded’ when it stands out as being different from normal, everyday language. J

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The Poem and Performance,ains the content of the poem. However, there are times when it is difficult to distinguish the `text’ of the poem from its ‘performance’. Heidi Rose (1992) considers the performance of sign language poems, and having acknowledged that a ‘text’ may be defined as ‘the original words of an author’, goe

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Blended Sign Language and Spoken Language Poetry,e effect that this can have on sign poetry. While it is clear that sign languages are fully independent languages, and that their grammars and vocabularies are independent of spoken languages, it is possible for the grammar of spoken languages to influence a person’s signing. As sign language poems

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The Hang Glider,iles’ early work and is also an especially striking example of the power of blended poetry. In 1975, she left the National Theatre of the Deaf in New England and drove across the USA to California, where she was appointed to help set up a full programme in Sign Language and Deaf Theatre at the drama

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and ,r a minority group, this poem confounds the normal expectations of the majority culture. As Deaf people do not hear, surely one of the senses will be missing? This poem shows that nothing is missing. In the poem, the description of the first three senses (Touch, Taste and Smell) establishes common g

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