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    It is not the case that Symbols denote by convention and use, not by intrinsic resemblance to their referents, so poetry's temporal deployment of signs does not limit what those signs can successfully refer to.

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    • 1.Temporal deployment creates ambiguity: readers encountering symbols sequentially may resolve reference differently than simultaneous presentation would allow.
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    • 2.Poetic compression and polysemy, while artistically powerful, actually multiply possible referents rather than clarify them, complicating successful reference.
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    • 3.Convention requires sufficient shared context; poetry's opacity and deliberate disruption of ordinary usage may violate the communicative conditions conventions require.
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    • 1.Symbol-referent relations depend on community agreement, not physical similarity, as shown by arbitrary word-object pairings across languages.
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    • 2.Poetry's non-linear, compressed syntax can express complex referents (emotions, abstractions) that linear prose struggles to capture equally well.
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    • 3.Historical poets successfully referred to novel concepts and states of mind using inherited symbolic systems, proving temporal sequence doesn't inherently constrain reference.
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