Where breathy sighs of pity mingle with laughter That hides like vermin in the concrete seams. The old man’s stare, bitter, unwavering, Follows the young man with a foreign tongue, Each syllable grating on his weary ears, Each word a puncture in his sense of self. The tracks beneath pu...
It says that Peter was giving monosyllables for answers. He was answering the doctor with words with only one syllable. Basically he was giving short replies, yes, no…and nothing more. In this chapter you will read luminous and radiant. They are synonyms, words with similar meaning. They ...
There’s so much craft in the way the poet creates this moment. Take a look at the syllable count in these lines. 15 one syllable words. (Valentine’s use of single syllable words could be the subject of a long class.) With these sharp short words she creates a rat-a-tat-tat, tap...