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Style: A Symposium'; ed. by Seymour Chatman, 1971,
p178)
Whether or not these rhetorical conventions shroud the meaning of a
poem in a cloud of uncertainty and indefiniteness, the fact remains
that they contribute to the unity, cohesion, compactness, and above
all, the aesthetic appeal of the poem.
C. ACCESSORY MEANING
Extended and accessory meanings are extremely vital. The
two kinds of meaning are interlocked. In function, they are
contributory to the textual meaning of the message. The problem of
meaning is fundamentally an organizational and a distributional
one. A reasonable equilibrium is to be maintained between the
three layers of meaning, ie. the obligatory, extended, and
accessory meaning. Unless such an equilibrium is accomplished the
content of the message will not be adequately expressed and,
subsequently, comprehensible. The translator will have to fill up
the gaps and make up for the oversights made by the author. This
accounts for the translator's manoeuverability with both rhetorical
and stylistic devices to achieve maximum communication. But
rhetorical and stylistic mechanisms should not eclipse the logical
meaning, nor enshrine it in a mist of vagueness or uncertainty.
The semantic well-proportionedness of the text must go hand in hand
with itsstructural well-formedness.
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