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Human Face Divine
I recently read that there is a grammatical construct known as a Miltonic Structure, after John Milton. It said that the structure consists of an adjective + noun + adjective, like "human face divine" ...
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Syntax in poetry
Could you please explain why the syntax in the following stanza is wrong?
Surrounded
by that sturdy assertiveness
that walled England the din
of traffic in my mind quietens,
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“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
This is from Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, also appeared in the movie Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind(2004).
Could anyone parse this sentence for me? Where's the predicate? What does "the ...
