Explain the significance of words like "mudluscious" and "puddle-wonderful."

What will be an ideal response?


* cummings is using language to sound like the thing described
.* cummings creates words that aren't often combined but that are related. In both the examples above and throughout the poem, sound is very important to the sense.

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