Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. ... This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... "That certain truths must remain unspoken is a roundabout way of saying that one knows what these truths are" and this "suggests the speaker pos...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... But all through what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away in more traditional modes. What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ...

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