One of my favourite writers is Virginia Woolf.
Woolf on Modern Poetry from “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924)
Grammar is violated; syntax disintegrated; as a boy staying with an aunt for the week-end rolls in the geranium bed out of sheer desperation as the solemnities of the sabbath wear on. The more adult writers do not, of course, indulge in such wanton exhibitions of spleen. Their sincerity is desperate, and their courage tremendous; it is only that they do not know which to use, a fork or their fingers. Thus, if you read Mr. Joyce and Mr. Eliot you will be struck by the indecency of the one, and the obscurity of the others. . . . Again, with the obscurity of Mr. Eliot. I think that Mr. Eliot has written some of the loveliest single lines in modern poetry. But how intolerant he is of the old usages and politenesses of society–respect for the weak, consideration for the dull! As I sun myself upon the intense and ravishing beauty of one of his lines, and reflect that I must make a dizzy and dangerous leap to the next, and so on from line to line, like an acrobat flying precariously from bar to bar, I cry out, I confess, for the old decorums, and envy the indolence of my ancestors who, instead of spinning madly through mid-air, dreamt quietly in the shade with a book. For these reasons, then, we must reconcile ourselves to a season of failure and fragments. We must reflect that where so much strength is spent on finding a way of telling the truth, the truth itself is bound to reach us in rather an exhausted and chaotic condition.
LINKING WORDS
Linking words help you to connect ideas and sentences.
Giving Examples
For example, For instance, Namely
The most common way of giving examples is by using for example or for instance, namely refers to something by name.
Adding Information
And, in addittion, as well as, also, too, furthermore, moreover, apart from, in addition to, besides.
Ideas are often linked by and. In a list, you put a comma between each item, but not before and.
I will write more about linking words in future posts.
Have a great writing week,
Elise x
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