Which excerpt from gerard manley hopkins "spring and fall" describes grief as a self-centered act?
a. "it is the blight man was born for,/it is margaret you mourn for."
b."now no matter, child, the name: /sorrow's springs are the same."
c. "ah! as the heart grows older/it will come to such sights "
d. nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed/what heart heard of, ghost "

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.