Investigating Morphosyntactic Patterns and Metaphorical Interpretation of Compound Words in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself: A Construction Morphology Approach
As a word formation process, compounding is essential to poetry because it enriches the poetic language, making it more compressed, concise, metaphorically dense, and effective. The article aims to investigate the morphosyntactic and metaphorical aspects of the compound words employed by the American poet Walt Whitman...