The term refers to the complex process by which a string of words is endowed with a poetic 'aura,' and can thus help us understand how prose is 'transformed' into poetry. If certain textual qualities are lacking, it will be difficult for a reader to experience the text's poeticity without an attentive reader, the text's poeticity could be lost despite the fact that the text contains certain formal and semantic features. Thus, it is a complex notion that involves formal, semantic, and pragmatic aspects. The term poeticity refers to the place in which certain linguistic patterns of parallelism and/or tense semantic relations of incongruity and paradoxes meet an attentive reader tuned to these textual characteristics. Whereas the notion of poeticity is difficult to define, it is still a useful term for analyzing a variety of poetic texts, and it is especially pertinent to different kinds of 'amalgamation' of poetry and prose. To illustrate my general argument about the multi-faceted relationships between poetry and prose, I also examine three paragraphs from Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and two poems by Amichai, which deliberately problematize the conventional distinction between poetry and prose. In this article I analyze various aspects of poeticity in James Joyce's 'The Dead,' especially in its concluding paragraph.

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