Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Aiuto "To Heal"

Salve, posto per la prima volta qui
per una questione importante.
Sono un musicista, e sto litigando da giorni con il mio bassista
per il testo di una canzone.
La parte incriminata � :
" she heard your call, now she's here/
give her your soul and she'll heal"
- Secondo lui dopo il verbo To Heal ci vuole per forza il complemento
oggetto , altrimenti non si capisce se Heal � transitivo o intransitivo.
- Secondo me 1 - si capisce benissimo  2 -  se in una canzone
o una poesia non puoi sottintendere un soggetto o complemento oggetto,
( che sia italiano, inglese, arabo o esperanto ) allora non sar� mai una
canzone o poesia, ma una prosa.
In pratica il testo non passa finch� non gli porto una prova tangibile
che il complemento oggetto si possa sottintendere in inglese.
Any Help? 

 Any Help? 
cambiare il testo in "give her your soul to be healed", se torna la 
metrica???

 Anche secondo me
But "to heal" can be intransitive, taking no object other than an implied 
"herself/himself/itself."
In the above line, "herself" might be implied, but since it's not stated the 
verb is intransitive.
Heal
[ intrans. ] become sound or healthy again : he would have to wait until his 
knee had healed.
 - correct or put right (an undesirable situation) : the rift between them 
was never really healed.
-- 
Joe/Joey da New York
English as she is spoken (and sometimes written) in the US

 canzone o poesia, ma una prosa.
[...]
Ok, esistono le licenze poetiche, ma ci sono alcune "licenze" che
suonano bene e altre che un native speaker non si prenderebbe mai :)
In questo caso, non so darti una risposta sicura... fai venire il
dubbio anche a me!
Aspetta di sentire cosa ne pensano i native speaker.

 oggetto , altrimenti non si capisce se Heal è transitivo o intransitivo.
"The wounds should heal in 3 days."
"My leg has healed nicely".

 the verb is intransitive.
Nevertheless, I guess the original poster wants to know whether in a poem
or in a song the transitive meaning of the verb "to heal" can be inferred
by the context even when a direct object is not stated.
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 by the context even when a direct object is not stated.
right.
What you guess is what I wanted to know. 

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In a word, yes. We fill in the missing information with what we expect 
from our experience in the world. Even if the song were instead about 
someone with extraordinary vampirish medicinal powers, the context would 
be enough to infer that if you hand over your soul to her she'll heal 
you in exchange.

 you in exchange.
She'll heal _you_? I took it to mean that she would recover from
whatever
her problem was.

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As did I.
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 whatever her problem was.
We are not in disagreement on that point. Your reading is what one would 
infer from the current context. The example I gave was prefaced by an 
"instead" and was given to illustrate how a different context would lead 
one to infer a different meaning. The ultimate point is that, when the 
phrasing is ambiguous because no object is present, you are required to 
infer from the context.