The Confusing Writing Style of John Berryman’s Dream Songs :: Dream Songs

The Confusing Writing Style of buns Berrymans Dream SongsJohn Berryman presents an interesting and somewhat confusing grouping of stories in his first 26 Dream Songs. The six line stanzas seem to reveal the inspirations that Berryman has. The poems are scripted with poor grammar and have a very random frost scheme. They bedevil me greatly reading through and through them, as they seemingly have no order or plot. Beginning with the rhyme scheme of The Dream Songs, Berryman seems to notice no specific order. In the 8th song, Berryman uses the pattern abcabc, but in the 11th song he uses abccda throughout the three six-line stanzas. In galore(postnominal) of the other sections he does not follow one pattern through all three stanzas. Also in some of them it seems as though he uses slant rhyme, using oral communication that do not barely rhyme but have strongly related sounds. One exemplar of this slant rhyme occurs in the 5th song while the brainfever chick did scales / Mr Hea rtbreak, the New Man, /come to farm a crazy land/ an count on of the dead on the fingernail (7). With this example scales and fingernail and man and land present words that do not completely rhyme. Berrymans random use of rhyme scheme correlates to the randomness of the entire work of the first section of his dream songs.The delivery that Berryman writes with in The Dream Songs too serves to complicate the work. He goes backwards and forth in using African American slang language and inverted English. He writes The enemy are sick, / and so is us of, very much rising trysts, / like this one, drove he out (12). This phrase makes no sense grammatically and presents quite a challenge for the reader to paraphrase. Berryman also throws in an occasional phrase in another language, as he does in the 12th song Tes yeux bizarres me suivent (14). This example just provides one more(prenominal) way in which Berryman makes his writing difficult to get through and scour more difficult to u nderstand.