An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! by Florence Hazrat

Author:Florence Hazrat [Hazrat, Florence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The piece Vivian analysed is part of the Holy Sonnets, a collection of poems on the individual’s relationship to God, characterised by intense romantic or sexual love, fear, doubt, trust and hope for redemption after death. The sonnets translate a mind that is wrestling with overwhelming emotions, theological riddles and the gap between knowing this life and not knowing the other. Death, the speaker suggests, will himself die, because of our final Christian resurrection. ‘In the edition you chose,’ Vivian’s professor berates her, ‘this profoundly simple meaning is sacrificed to hysterical punctuation’:

And Death – capital D – shall be no more – semicolon! Death – capital D – comma –thou shalt die – exclamation mark!

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