O Sweet Spontaneous - Linguistic Analysis Of Poem By Ee Cummings

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agraph, but instead are meant to emphasize a moment in time. O sweet spontaneous begins with alliteration and continues its use throughout and he uses assonance in employing phonetic parallelism. This poem furthermore gives prominence to enjambed lines, in typical cummings’ flare, which can trick the reader into thinking a complete thought. The poem has only one capital letter, one comma, and one period. Nonetheless, with the use of a misplaced comma and/or period, these significant punctuation markers stress a precise and deliberate thought pattern thereby creating a larger, and more complete unit of thought. He ultimately blends the old with the new to demonstrate perhaps, that Mother Earth is enduring, while man is a pest(ilence).

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

The first sound - letter, ‘O’, of this poem is used as a word. By Cummings’ use of the simple ‘O’ this reader immediately accepted a cry of love. The poet continues the poem with the /s/ full alliteration of sweet and spontaneous. The /s/ begins the second and third word. It also ends the third word and this first line of the poem creates a praying sense/concept. The /e/ of sweet and e-o...