... on the printed page as nearly as possible. Milton is too easy for this, but Irving Layton provides a good example: And me happiest when I compose poems. Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much; yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] I am their core. Let them swap, bandy, like a flame swerve. I am their mouth; as a ... mouth I serve. ("The Birth of Tragedy" 1-5, 9-11) The sets of bracketed spaced periods in these examples represent ellipses--portions of the text that I did not inclu...

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• Grade Level: High School