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Louis MacNeice - Sunday Morning

Mrav12 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:28:55 GMT

Hi i have an essay to write on Louis Macneice's - Sunday Morning. I was wondering if anybody could help me analyse it as i have a very hard time reading and understanding poetry. Any help would be amazing - meaning, use of enjambment, causuras, repetition, aliteration, assonance, etc. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.

Louis MacNeice - Sunday Morning

Down the road someone is practising scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,
Man's heart expands to tinker with his car
For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar,
Regard these means as ends, concentrate on this Now,

And you may grow to music or drive beyond Hindhead anyhow,
Take corners on two wheels until you go so fast
That you can clutch a fringe or two of the windy past,
That you can abstract this day and make it to the week of time
A small eternity, a sonnet self-contained in rhyme.

But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Open its eight bells out, skulls' mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.

Re: Symbols, paragraphing and some caps...

Mister Micawber — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:29:46 GMT

1.) No smileys, but mathematical symbols are fine.

2.) No; do it with language.

3.) Colons are followed by capital letters in BrE and lower case letters in AmE (or vice versa).

Symbols, paragraphing and some caps...

JaCKo__007 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:18:27 GMT

Hi everybody, hope you're all doing well and have been on holiday to some place nice.

I've got a couple of questions:

1.) If I was talking about a manuscript that was going to be published - therefore something formal, could you use symbols in such a text? Symbols like +, -, =, (I know I'd never use a smiley, but I just have to ask)

2.) In my language this is acceptable, and I never came across it in English, so I thought one of you guys would probably know: In a longer manuscript you have multiple paragraphs, but some are more connected than others. Could you vary the spacing - say you pressed "enter" on your keyboard once for content that related more, and twice for content that did not relate as much?

And just one final thing:

3.) In a sentence where you were going to ask a question, or started a new topic after a colon (like I did in 2.) ), would you start the continuation with a capital letter, or not. I know its with caps for citation or quotes, but am not 100% sure for any other case.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Is this grammar correct?

Mister Micawber — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:18:12 GMT

After the colon, however, you do not need a capital letter.

I think this is a BrE - AmE thing, Philip-- I have been caught on it a couple of times, not seeing the point of a capital letter myself.

Re: Is this grammar correct?

Philip — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:00:42 GMT

Chrismlangan wrote:
While traveling though a desolate area of space, Donald sees something in the distance that grabs his attention: The Fallen Creature and Proteron are flying blissfully across the horizon.

No problem with grammar. After the colon, however, you do not need a capital letter.

Re: fix my grammer

Grammar Geek — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:20:43 GMT

Okay then:

Here are my comments.

1. Start with a capital letter. You hae a comma splice- you joined two complete thoughts with a comma. You need either a period or a semicolon (Sorry Clive.)

2. Start with a capital letter. The way it's written, the questions felt unprepared. You need to say that SHE felt unprepared.

3. Start with a capital letter. Some may tell you that it reads like the wall have done outstanding work. I think it's prefectly understandable that the executives are who have done great work. However, you can move the "great work" part to be be closer to the executives.

4. Start with a capital letter. Leave a space after you commas. But a comma after oranges. And check your spelling.

5. Start with a capital letter. You use the singular emotion but you list two things. Use a colon instead of a semi-colon. (As an aside, I'm not sure that "not getting what you want" is an emotion. But it's not a grammatical issue.)

Do you want to post them again and we'll take another look?

Re: Is full stop before or after quotation marks?

J Lewis — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:20:05 GMT

I sometimes use the word "clever" when describing a person.
Here it is clear that the full stop has nothing to do with the quoted word and is part of the main sentence. The word "clever" doesn't need its own full stop. If we are quoting somebody speaking, then the quoted speech needs its own punctuation, which falls inside the quotes.
They said, "He's very clever." Note that a true quote begins with a capital letter.
What about commas?
If I don't like the word "clever", I say "smart" or something similar. Where would others put the comma in this case?

More problems arise with question and exclamation marks, which have the value of a full stop.
She said, "I love you!" This means she said it forcefully. The exclamation is hers.
She said, "I love you"! This shows that the speaker is over the moon about the fact that she loves him. The exclamation is the speaker's.

How about this one:
Did he really shout "Stop!"?
Here I should also put a question mark after "How about this one:" but it seems excessive! And would I put it before or after the colon?! Or even after the quote?!

To be logical, we should end a lot of sentences with full stop, end of quote, second full stop. We don't do this and the decision as to where to put the single full stop can be rather arbitrary.

Re: The letter after ':"

LearningNerd — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:45:28 GMT

Yes, they have an example on their page:

"There were two reasons for a drop in attendance at NBA games this season: First, there was no superstar to take the place of Michael Jordan. Second, fans were disillusioned about the misbehavior of several prominent players."

They also have a couple other interesting guidelines:

"If the introductory phrase preceding the colon is very brief and the clause following the colon represents the real business of the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter:

Remember: Many of the prominent families of this New England state were slaveholders prior to 1850.

If the function of the introductory clause is simply to introduce, and the function of the second clause (following the colon) is to express a rule, begin that second clause with a capital:

Let us not forget this point: Appositive phrases have an entirely different function than participial phrases and must not be regarded as dangling modifiers."

Re: Comma and semicolon dualism

Betsy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:56:34 GMT

Semicolon use
A semicolon following an independent clause [a complete sentence] signals that what follows is also an independent clause whose meaning is of equal importance to the first. Joining two clauses with a semicolon alone is appropriate only when the clauses are closely related and the relationship is clear. If they are not closely related, you probably should make them separate sentences. RULE: Although an independent clause following a semicolon is essentially a complete sentence, it never begins with a capital letter. Unlike a coordinating conjunction [and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet), a conjunctive adverb [however, nevertheless, accordingly, besides, indeed, similarly, then, thus, therefore, that is and others, or a transitional expression ["in fact" or "for example"] cannot be used with a comma to join two independent clauses. Conjunctive adverbs and transitional expressions require a stronger mark of punctuation: a semicolon [I wasn't busy;however, I did not have time to play golf.] 2) "When items in a series contain commas, readers may have difficulty deciding which commas separate parts of the series and which belong within the items. To avoid confusion, put semicolons between elements in a series when one or more contain other punctuation.[Confusing: "I interviewed Debbie Rios, the attorney, Rhonda Marron, the accountant, and the financial director." Edited: "I interviewed Debbie Rios, the attorney; Rhonda Marron, the accountant; and the financial director."] (The Longman Writer's Companion).

source: http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#14

Re: punctuation

nona the brit — Wed, 03 May 2006 10:42:55 GMT

For a start you need to give these a capital letter: Saturday, Sunday, Jane, Paul, I and the first letter in all sentences.

Then all sentences need to end with a full stop (period).

sentence 1 - I'd drop the first comma. sentence 2. I don't think you need both the semi-colon and the 'therefore'. If you take out the therefore it's ok. sentence 3. ok. sentence 4 I'd say no comma required but others might say different.