Kategori: addressing a YOU

A poetic YOU is ambivalent. YOU could be an I in disguise or an I talking to it-self. YOU can be a concrete other in some relation to I. YOU can be the reader. YOU can be an EVERYONE. Simultaneously YOU is always a direct address and is as such a suitable form for giving suggestions and orders, for admonishing and imploring. With a consistent YOU it is unclear who is speaking, but clear that the speech is directed at somebody