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(1910) [MARC] Author: Frank Heller
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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION

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flower (I, 84), breast-blossom (I, 83) fire-flower (I, 180),
snow-flower (III, 171), spray-flower (III, 295), dew-flower (IV,
155), poison-flower (IV, 230).

Other rather striking formations are:

II, 120, ... the blood-beats of song . . .

124, ... the earth-god Freedom . . .

125, ... the earth-soul Freedom . . .

III, 81, ... the birth-god of my day . . .

IV, 8, A storm-star that sea-farers . . .

178, As rain-stars blurred and marred by rain . . .

125, Those knightly name-fellows . . .

157, In hawthorn-time the heart grows light . . .

161, In linden-time the heart is high . . .

344, A maiden crowned with song-wreath . . .

365, Join hands in battle-grip for death.

V, 24, The husband-slayer fordone by swordstroke . . .

285, They call our pebble-gift a gem . . .

VI, 51, For her were the rocks clothed round with thunder

And the crests of them carved by the storm-smith’s
craft . . .

153, Shone, or seemed to shine and swim

Through the cloud-surf great and grim . . .

As regards the motive of these formations, it is
evidently the same in all, the will to gain a deeper
impression through a shorter expression. The analogy that is
the conditio sine qua non of composition may perhaps be
the only source of a new formation, as in earth-god,
blood-beat, name-fellow. There may also be supposed some
influence of Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian poetry in a word
like storm-smith (cf. p. 73 above, land-waster, etc.).

In some cases, one part of the compound is closely
connected with some other word of the sentence; thus
the birth-god of my day — the god of my birth-day; the
fleshly dungeon-dress (not given above) — the dress of the
fleshly dungeon; in battle-grip for death — in grip of
battle for (life and) death. A striking case of ’inversion’
occurs in

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