In short, Jakobson is attempting to show how a linguistic
expert should study poetics.
Poetics, of course, is about
verbage and not about the rhyme scheme or makeup of poetic lines. Linguistics, of
course, is the science behind that verbage, so poetics and linguistics merge in this
way. Further, because linguistics is truly a science of words, literary criticism (or
the judgement of a piece of literature as "good" or "bad") has no power here. Instead,
what is preferred is objective analysis, not opinion due to the depth of
components.
Jakobson delves deeper into linguistics in
this text than I have seen in any of his other works. There are further points Jakobson
makes in his text, specifically about "synchrony and diachrony" as well as "ideation and
emotiveness" and the survey of language in question. In short, it is a perfect read for
a person who wants to be well versed in the science of
linguistics.
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