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The Writing of Walt Whitman - Coggle Diagram
The Writing of Walt Whitman
Parallel Structure
Is when a writer uses the same pattern of words to show that two more ideas have the same level of importance
This can happen
At the word
Phrase
Clause level
Using coordinating conjunctions
And
or
Example in the text
I Hear America Singing
The woodcutter’s song, the plowboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
Another example
Sophie likes hiking, dancing, and swimming
Catalogue
is a collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list from poetry
Example from the text
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
Example from another text
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
Anaphora
An anaphora is a figure of speech in which the words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses
Example from the text
from Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Stanza 17
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
Another example
London by William Blake
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
free verse
Poetry that does not use any strict meter or rhyme scheme
These peoms can have lines of any length
1 Word
much longer
Example in Text
from Song of Myself
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
Example from another poem
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Diction
Is the language employed in a manner that sets poetry apart from other kinds of writing
It involves
Vocabulary
Grammar
Phrasing
Another example
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elio
Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky
Example from the text
America
Center of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,