Please entering, about a sentence
"more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless,phony or,worst of all,boring,as we went form Wordworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil."
many comma marks in the sentence above,i am confused,who can explain detaily the structure of the sentence! thanks
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More artists began seeing happiness.....More artists began considering happiness
as (as being)
...meaningless,
...phony,
...or worst of all, boring
as (conjunction meaning--while)
we went ......our civilization moved forward in time
from Wordsworth's daffodils........Daffodils is a poem written by Wordsworth (1804) describing the beauty of nature.
to Baudelaire's flowers of evil....Flowers of Evil is a book of poems by Baudelaire (1857) about death, decadence, and eroticism.
Between 1800 and 1860, artists began to think that the theme of happiness (Wordsworth's "Daffodils") was boring, meaningless, and phony when compared to the decadent erotic poems of Baudelaire.
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I've swapped some phrases around and changed punctuation to make it a little clearer:
"As we went from Wordworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or - worst of all - boring."
You have a short list here: "happiness as meaningless, phony or boring". "Worst of all" is extra commentary, and probably shouldn't have used commas since there were already so many.
The important part of the sentence is how the artists viewed happiness, so that should come first (sentence weight: saying the important stuff first). The mention of the two poems are secondary to the point, so that phrase was placed at the end.
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