DECLARATION
NAME: Ndumiso Ncube
STUDENT NUMBER: 46302522
MODULE NUMBER: THL 2601
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER: 02

I declare that this assignment is my own, original work. Where I have used source material, it is acknowledged in accordance with departmental requirements. I understand what plagiarism is and I am aware of the departmental policy on it.

Signature: Ndumiso Ncube
Date: 25 March 2013

CHECKLIST
Please tick the appropriate (√) | | YES | NO | 1 | I acknowledged all source material (study guide, tutorial letter, internet, other sources) used in my assignment. | √ | | 2 | Irrespective of whether I participated in a study group or not, the wording of the assignment is my own. | √ | | 3 | I indicated all sources used in my assignment …show more content…

This code, however, should not determine a text as an autonomous entity but as an autonomously functioning semiotic system as will be illustrate when we focus on the meaning of the poem Mending Wall.
Intertextual code according to Lotman (1977: 41 -48) refers to the relations between groups of related texts that belong to subgenres such as narrative, lyrical, dramatic or other groupings of poetry including references, citations and allusions to other poems and literary texts. Thus, the focus on this code centres on the text and how the writer observes the conventions of the literary code. Questions that may be asked of Mending Wall are, What qualifies the text as a poem? One then focuses on the poetry conventions, in Mending Wall , the use of traditional verse form and secondary modelling system. Mending Wall is written in blank verse with no stanza breaks. At this point one needs to mention, besides its free verse style, its conversational and simplicity of language and of course allusions of the idiomatic expression “Good fences make good neighbours” this in so many ways can be viewed as a binary opposition to the Bible’s verse that says