Explores Singapore poet Edwin Thumboo's aesthetic use of consistent foregrounding, or use of certain linguistic devices to attract attention, in one poem from three perspectives: propositional; textual; and interpersonal. The approach adopted is functional-semantic in orientation and is designed to gain a better appreciation of the poem's texture…

Examines the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and present. The way that the colonial experience and the political, economic, intellectual, and psychological recovery from that experience have affected the self-definition of the poet is explored. (28 references)…