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    O Sweet Spontaneous

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    Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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    Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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    Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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    Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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    The significance of the earth

    through modern and unique style


    A stylistic analysis of E.E.Cummings’ poem
    “ O sweet spontaneous”

    Melinda
    Miftari
    beauty      how
    O sweet spontaneous
    often have religions taken

    earth how often have thee upon their scraggy knees

    squeezing and
    the
     

    doting buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive

    gods

                fingers of          (but

    true
    prurient philosophers pinched
     

    and to the incomparable

    couch of death thy


    poked
    rhythmic
      lover

    thee              thou answerest

    ,has the naughty thumb  


    them only with

    of science prodded  

                                  spring)
    thy
    INTRODUCTION

    In this poem, Cummings has used


    irregular sentence structure,
    deviations, and unique word choice
    to explain that the beauty of nature
    is analyzed and affected by
    theology, science, and philosophy.
    Graphological deviation

     Unusual line breaks

     Only one capital letter, one


    comma, and one period

     Incorrect use of parenthesis


    Phonological level

     Poem is written in free verse, it


    does not have any particular
    rhyme scheme
     Alliteration is used in “ O sweet
    spontaneous”, which gives us
    sense of amazement
     Assonance is used in presenting
    a dark picture of humanity
    Lexical level
     Poet has used adjectives sweet
    and spontaneous to describe the
    earth

     Poet has used verbs like


    pinched, poked, prodded,
    squeezing, and buffeting to
    describe the mistreatment of the
    earth
    CONCLUSION
     With the usage of deviations,
    unique sentence structure, and
    various stylistic devices, the poet
    has managed to convey his love for
    mother nature and to describe how
    human kind is responsible for the
    destruction of nature and its beauty.
    1. What are the images that make
    this poem vivid?
    2. Why do you think the poet uses
    the word spontaneous to
    describe the earth?

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