... the word "etcetera," for many different usages, and parts of speech. Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," ... 't understand the deeper meaning of his choice of writing. One critic, Edmund Wilson, comments, "One imagines him giving off his poems as spontaneously as perspiration and with as little application of the intellect but he seems never to know when he is writing badly and when he is ...

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• Grade Level: High School