For example, the standard rules of capitalization and punctuation find themselves ignored in Cummings’ “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r,” which at first read – or should I say ‘look’ – seems cryptic. Cummings famously abandoned conventional syntax in nearly all his poems. Here are 10 writers whose usage of punctuation (or lack thereof) has both bewildered and impressed readers:īoth a Harvard graduate and World War I veteran, E.E. While the majority of sentences in published texts (including this article) depend on punctuation to make sense, the literary world is nonetheless no stranger to great writers who have famously forgone punctuation conventions and gotten away with it.
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