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    Poetic Device Parataxis

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    Parataxis is a literary technique where clauses or phrases are placed together using coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", or "or" rather than subordinating conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis. Examples include "I came; I saw; I conquered" and "As it was cold; the snow came". Walt Whitman's poem "Continuities" effectively uses parataxis through short clauses placed together, such as "Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost," and "Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;".

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    Parataxis is a literary technique where clauses or phrases are placed together using coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", or "or" rather than subordinating conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis. Examples include "I came; I saw; I conquered" and "As it was cold; the snow came". Walt Whitman's poem "Continuities" effectively uses parataxis through short clauses placed together, such as "Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost," and "Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;".

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    Parataxis is a literary technique where clauses or phrases are placed together using coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", or "or" rather than subordinating conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis. Examples include "I came; I saw; I conquered" and "As it was cold; the snow came". Walt Whitman's poem "Continuities" effectively uses parataxis through short clauses placed together, such as "Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost," and "Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;".

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    Poetic Device Parataxis

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    Parataxis is a literary technique where clauses or phrases are placed together using coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", or "or" rather than subordinating conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis. Examples include "I came; I saw; I conquered" and "As it was cold; the snow came". Walt Whitman's poem "Continuities" effectively uses parataxis through short clauses placed together, such as "Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost," and "Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;".

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    Parataxis

    What Is a Parataxis in Poetry?


    Is a literary technique of the placing together of sentences, clauses, or
    phrases with the use of coordinating more often than the uses of
    conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis.
    For example:
    I came; I saw; I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
    As it was cold; the snow came.
    None of my friends stayed they all left early.
    Example in Poetry
    Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,

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    No birth, identity, formno object of the world.

    TABLE
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    Nor OF
    life,CONTENTS
    nor force, ........................................................................
    nor any visible thing;

    Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................1

    Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature.

    The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires,
    The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;

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    The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons
    continual;
    To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
    With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
    (Walt Whitman, "Continuities")

    Activities
    1) In your own words, write a definition for parataxis.
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    2) What do you think hypotaxis is?
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    3) Write 3 short clauses and place them together to make an effective parataxis.
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