Abstract
AbstractThis chapter will examine how poetry uses textual choice to represent processes through the verbal element of their clauses. Whilst we might want to comment on individual lexical verb choices in poems, particularly in relation to their immediately surrounding text, there are two ways in which the choice of a verb in a clause has wider repercussions in a text such as a poem. First of all, it may be representative of a particular syntactic or semantic class of verbs, and that will have an effect on how the process being represented is perceived by the reader. Secondly, the text as a whole may contain a pattern of choices that underscore the trajectory and/or point of view being presented. These local and text-wide effects of verb choice will be illustrated and explored in detail in this chapter.
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