... commas, periods, and sentence structure, so how can we express exactly what we feel? As the poem progresses, Cummings says, "kisses are a better fate than wisdom," 11 which supports his stance on emotional integrity versus knowledge that can be found in books. Finally, he ends the poem saying, "life "s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis." 11 Later, Cumming's style ... puts it "[Traditional people in society] have a fear of tasting anything which they cannot recognize at a glance, they refuse to understand anything which is disturbingly new."13 So, by becoming critical o...

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... make very poor decisions costing other people their fate. It was discussed in class whether or not the character of Haimon was valuable to the plot of the play. My stance on this is that he is one of the most important characters and that some of the dialogue in the play shared between Kreon and Haimon is ... critical to Kreon's turning point. Throughout the play no one could stand up to Kreon or even impose his or her ideas onto him. It is his young son Haimon who ... ...

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