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Cummings is a master of using words in different grammatical roles – here, “how” – to describe the specific.

The choice of “how” puts the emphasis on how the action (“does”) unfolds. The emphasis on action and unfolding action fits with the sex scene Cummings breaks down in the poem.

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Cummings comments on love, intimacy, and connection through a physical space – the body. The statement is conditional, revolving around the new closeness other than the body itself.

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Representation of a dream created by society, a male ideal. Woolf interacts with both male and female ideals in much of her work – here presenting a modernist male ideal through the figure of Hugh.

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An indication of more modernized ways – reflecting the period of modernization in which Woolf wrote.

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Watts gives us a little insight into why Mike Jones ended up with so much hype.

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If you’ve never heard one of Watts' Fuck Action tapes, you’ve never really experienced sexy.

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Watts goes into a lil piece of early Swishahouse history – from Lil Mario to 50/50 Twin.

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DJ Michael Watts breaks down the first slowed down record he ever heard, the beginnings of what eventually became Swishahouse Records' famous chopped and screwed style.

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Perhaps the most subtle of the lot, Russell Edson’s poem grapples with the change of loss. He begins with a description of scientific fact, and ends with one of fiction – a poignant shift.

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