![]() ![]() Naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets and all the horsemen’s faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools. cummings in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember meġ1 A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half Up Keep Off Signs) & youth yanks them down (old age cries NO Tres) & (pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must N’t Don’t &} youth goes Right on growing oldġ0 e.e. Notice how unusual or interesting combinations of punctuation-the dash, the exclamation point, the semicolon or parentheses-contribute to meaning Is it consistent with grammatical conventions? How does it affect speed? Where are the pauses? Does the poet use italics, bold fonts, dashes, or any other uncommon fonts or punctuation devices? If so, why? As they played, I watched them from the kitchen window.2 Syntax: How do the poet’s syntactical choices change or expand the ideas in the poem?ģ enjambment Lines of poetry are broken before a grammatical or logical completion of a thoughtĤ End-stopped Lines are broken after the completion of a sentence or other grammatical pauseĦ Sentence Structure Complete sentences or fragments? Is there a pattern? Within the sentence is the word order natural or grammatically irregular?ħ Punctuation How is it used or not used? They weren't paying much attention to their surroundings. ![]() More effective use of the exclamation point:.Yesterday the boys were playing outside! They weren't paying much attention to their surroundings! As they played, I watched them from the kitchen window! I was horrified to see a mountain lion in the tree! Do not overuse exclamation points or the intended effect may be lost. However, in formal writing only one is necessary.Ĥ. ![]() In informal writing, multiple exclamation points are sometimes used to indicate stronger emphasis or emotion. Margaret opened the front door just as everyone shouted, "Surprise!"ģ. Use an exclamation point to indicate strong emotion or surprise. It is one of the few ways that a writer can indicate how words may sound when spoken.ġ. Use of the exclamation point is optional for the writer. An exclamation point is used after a word group or sentence in order to emphasize a point or to express strong emotion or surprise.
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