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note

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  • light-hearted, playful tone that is meant to mirror the delightfulness of spring
2
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in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings combines the names of the boys – eddyandbill – as well as

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the names of the girls – “bettyandisabel”

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in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings achieves a different emphasis on the repeated words “far and wee” (Lines 5, 14, and 23-25) by

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varying the spacing between words and then putting each word on a separate line

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in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings gives a special emphasis to baloonman at the end of the poem (Line 22) by

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capitalizing “Man”

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in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings uses the modernist emphasis on imagery to paint a vivid image of spring with words and phrases like

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“when the world is mud-luscious” and “when the world is puddle-wonderful”

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the poet e.e. cummings in his poem “in Just” uses clear, concise, compressed language to create a vivid image, such as

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line 11 – “puddle-wonderful”

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