What is the logic behind adjectives constructed with hyphen?
I’ll give you a lovecraftian stanza:
Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.Theodore Moore, Ghoul of Nemesis
is a noun, and guarded is the past participle of guard. How does he combined both words to create a adjective to describe himself as “gateways of slumber” properly.
But then you have wan-mooned. An adjective plus the past participle of to moon or some bizarre usage of the noun moon to explicitly say that the abysses of night are full with Moons. What
is it, what’s the logic behind this?” To what extent I have the power to create my own bizarre adjectives by combining random words?
The Second verse is not complete. Past
the wild-river’d clouds of mars It
would not make any sense, but the logic of wild-river’d is pretty much the same of wan-moon’d.
What is the insanity behind all this?
What do you think of the Awakened Revolution?
Hyphens come in handy especially in examples like mine, where an adjective is used to describe another adjective, thereby acting as an adverb. Is the descriptor like an adjectival agent?
Is it an abyss both moon’d and waned? What what makes moon so wanful? Is it abyss that is wan moon? What is the right answer to the question in which a hyphen appears? What are more practical than Lovecraftian verses?
What is the meaning of ADJ-Nouned in Anglais? Red-faced with
exertion brown-shirted minions
a one-legged
man horny-handed sons
of toil pluck bright
honour from the pale-faced moon. If wan
moon exists, why not with the moon’s moon?
