Wendy
Ira
Nico
Ee Rang
Grace
Annette
Addo
Cooper
Jan
Park
Se
Soloveichick
Message
Addresser
Addressee
Think what worse
Message
an instructor with authority
Message
Upper
Lower
Water Lily
Through the spectrum. Think what worse
The choice of words and grammatical structure the author uses makes the seem as if from a prehistoric time.
compound noun usage “pond-bed"
genitive case of “pond-bed’s”
choice of adjective to carry the theme: "prehistoric", "bedragonned"
lack of verb phrase
choice of verb tense: present perfect
Grammatical Deviation and Foregrounding
through, think
what, worse
set, stare
15-16: /ʊrs/
17-18: /s/
19-20: /ɛər/
Through the spectrum. Think what worse
/ W / W / W /
Is the pond-bed’s matter of course;
W W / W / W W /
Prehistoric bedragonned times
/ X / X X / X /
Crawl that darkness with Latin names,
/ X / X X / X /
Have evolved no improvements there,
/ X / X X / X /
Jaws for heads, the set stare,
/ X / X / /
Ignorant of age as of hour-
/ X / X / X X /
references to color
forms of neologism: "river-bed", "bedragonned"
In what other ways might the poem have been written, if it had been written in a linear shape like a prose text?
Wendy
Ira
Nico
Ee Rang
Grace
Annette
Addo
Cooper
Jan
Park
Se
Soloveichick