Her unique free style is due mainly to her peculiar placement of punctuation, such as dashes that break the lines keeping them open, unusual grammar and capitalization of seemingly banal words. ... In fact, through the synesthesia, syllables and sentences are described by words generally used in describing petals, which compose the flower's cup like syllables and sentences compose a poem. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that l...

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He would use a type of experimental verse cast in lines without rhyme and long lines with no identifiable meter. ... Whitman tried hard to make this second edition look different from first one, so he eliminated the space of the first one, also without Emerson's permission, he printed in gold the opening words of the letter he sent: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. ...

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Of course, according to him, we aren't normally in commune with our soul, but all we need to gain this connection is demonstrated in the following: Loafe with me [his soul] on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. ...

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