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The paper focuses on one of the devices serving to mark the foregrounded part of a lyric poem, which is the break of referential continuity. It is shown that in many instances the most salient part of the poem, corresponding to the discovery of some important truth or some other change in the author’s attitude towards the world, is constructed in such a way that its referential links to the preceding text are either interrupted or seriously weakened. The important implications which this fact has for the general theory of grounding are discussed at some length.