Parataxis

What Is a Parataxis in Poetry?

Is a literary technique of the placing together of sentences, clauses, or
phrases with the use of coordinating more often than the uses of
conjunctions. This contrasts with hypotaxis.
For example:
I came; I saw; I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
As it was cold; the snow came.
None of my friends stayed they all left early.
Example in Poetry
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,

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No birth, identity, formno object of the world.

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nor force, ........................................................................
nor any visible thing;

Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.

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Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature.

The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;

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The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons
continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
(Walt Whitman, "Continuities")

Activities
1) In your own words, write a definition for parataxis.
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2) What do you think hypotaxis is?
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3) Write 3 short clauses and place them together to make an effective parataxis.
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