In A Farewell to Arms, perhaps Hemingway's most poetic novel, it's interesting to notice now often the great writer repeats simple nouns in the same passage, and even in the same sentence. This seems contrary to the advice writers often hear, which is not to repeat words close together or even on the same page. When you repeat words, they tend to stick in a reader’s mind, right? And if the repetition is unintentional, it draws attention to words that you overuse and don’t necessarily want the reader to be focusing on.
But it’s different if it’s intentional. In this video we'll break down two passages from the novel to analyze how the intentional repetition of simple nouns leads to the descriptive immersiveness and surprising resonance of Hemingway's finely wrought prose.
15 июн 2024
