- Commas regulate the rhythm of the poem
- '---' gives a sense of the list continuing and Plath's amazement with the world and how extensive it is
- Exclamatory sentence makes Plath sound shocked
- Imitates the journey and life cycle of the balloon
- Less punctuation towards the end of the poem
- Full stop at the end of the poem to symbolise the death of the balloon
Composition
- (blue) as an afterthought, as if it's important to Shapcott that the reader knows that the pencil is blue
- Becomes more disjointed as the poem continues
- Overwhelmed by what's happening
- (blue) as if that information is important
- More disjointed as the poem continues
- Sense of the poet being overwhelmed
- Begins poem with 'And' as if the readers have just stumbled upon someone's thought process, almost like we're intruding, the poem has been going on long before it's been written.
Typographical Crimes
- Sansom uses disjointed punctuation and other 'typographical crimes' to show the reader how much punctuation impacts on a poem and how it influences the tone of the poem.
- 'Composition' uses lower-case to symbolise breathlessness,
- 'Balloons' starts each line with a capital letter for emphasis, sharpness
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