If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

The colon is an Ammons "signature"; he uses it "as an all-purpose punctuation mark. Corsons Inlet. Lehman has written that Ammons "bears out T.

He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.