Monday, February 28, 2011

2.28 Diction Excerise

a. gashes
lapping
scurried
shoals
wilderness
warbles
underbrush
fangs


b. Elevation: potent and compelling
Connotation: emblematic and denotative
Sound: metamorphose and fluctuating
Concreteness: corporeal and tangible

The metamorphic nature of Carl Sanburg's potent, emblematic diction along with the ending voice in The Wilderness exudes a sense of subjugating the internal chaos of the man in the poem.

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