[英语学习]文体学1.pptVIP

Why ‘the’ eagle? ‘the’ wrinkle sea? The definite reference in the nominal group “the wrinkle sea beneath him” refers outwards to the kind of sea that the poet has knowledge of but the reader does not. The definite reference in the title is both referring forwards to form structural cohesion in the text and outwards to link with somebody or something outside the text. In the former case, it identifies with the personal pronouns “he”, “him”, “his” in the following text, a kind of usage which is not very often found in ordinary discourse. In the