OK … I just re-read “The Raven”, one of my favorites. I’m not sure what ‘flexible object combination and nesting’ means … if you can point out examples of it in “The Raven” or other POEtry, that would be very helpful.
Thanks
-NM
Here’s an example from every day speaking:
“In English, recursion is often used to create expressions that modify or change the meaning of one of the elements of the sentence. For example, to take the word nails and give it a more specific meaning, we could use an object relative clause such as that Dan bought, as in
Hand me the nails that Dan bought.
In this sentence, the relative clause that Dan bought (which could be glossed as Dan bought the nails) is contained within a larger noun phrase: the nails (that Dan bought (the nails)). So the relative clause is nested within a larger phrase, kind of like a stack of bowls.”(Matthew J. Traxler, Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)