Chiasmus

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In Chiasmus, the words might jump from one sentence to the other in an x shape.

The ‘chi’ stands for x in Greek.

‘In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, “crossing”, from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, “to shape like the letter Χ”), is a “reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words”’. (Corbett and Connors 58–59, 74)

So, chiasmus is like playing with words, their significance and objectives, in such a way that one phrase appears to contradict the other.

Chiasmus can be an allegorical way to use meanings, where questions sometimes seem like satire.

Chiastic (adjective): Referring to a figure that repeats concepts in reverse order, in the same or modified form.

Without understanding, there is no point of looking at it, since inattention would make you lose the order.

In the text by Johnson, she allows you to see it, whereas clarity in Melville’s book is not easily attainable.

Allowing for the existence of personification but revising the relation between personifier and personified positioning an opposition

http://oer2go.org/mods/en-boundless/www.boundless.com/definition/chiastic/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus Johnson, Barbara.

Studies in Romanticism; Melvilles fist: The execution of Billy Bud between good and evil only to make each term take on properties of its opposite, Melvilles set up his plot in a form of chiasmus.

This play between personification, personifier and personified, is like a party for the thoughts that enhanced the story.

The expression ‘deadly space between’ refers primarily to a gap in cognition,

In my desperation to understand, I wrote it as a poem instead.

Deadly space between a heart and a soul, the destination where you can face the dead.

Clouds can come and go, and there is no way to find rain.

Heaven is upon the mountains, climb the hill, and you will find eternity.

Some people can fly above their sobriety, while others drink from their sorrows.

Music is, made to heal the soul, but no soul could heal without love.

There is no harmony without symphony, but our heartbeat is just harmonious.

You will find me crossing sentences and pieces, ‘cause I cannot find the parts of my broken heart.

I can still hear the waves from Westpunt beach shoveling on my feet, but I cannot seem to find my way back to that beach.

I got lost on the ocean of my desires with you, but the waves rushing by are still intact.

Calm, and you will hear my voice in the middle of everything, but that sound will not be tender.

The existence of your love was never a certainty, certainty is where I found happiness instead.