Read the poem aloud. Try pausing for a fraction of a second at the end ofevery line. Is there a justification for each line break?
What will be an ideal response?
- The poem is written in unpunctuated free verse. The lines tend to end on natural speech pauses, but without conventional punctuation the reader cannot know if a phrase or sentence ends until he or she says the line aloud (or reads it carefully) and proceeds to the next line. The effect is one of discovering the full meaning of the lines only as they unfold. The phrase “Tireless traveler,” for example, is initially ambiguous in syntactical terms. Does it refer to the speaker or the silence of death? Only by going on to the next line (“Like the beam of a lightless star”) does the reader understand that the phrase stands in apposition to silence. Merwin’s lack of punctuation, therefore, both slows down one’s reading of the poem and endows its language with an appropriate sense of mystery.
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Gramática. Answer the questions in Spanish using superlative constructions.
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