Her concepts were nothing new; her technique was. Her contribution to modern poetry is her use of words. Her diction shifts with ease from everyday words and turns of phrase to sudden scientific terms and classical expressions. In¡§Rigorists¡¨she ways that the reindeer has¡§a neck like edelweiss or lion¡¦s foot,¡Đleontopodium more exactly.¡¨In¡§The Pangolin¡¨this near artichoke is Leonardo¡¦s, da Vinci¡¦s replica. She delighted not only in her own words, but in the words of others she had read or heard, and she quoted freely, careful in inserting her quotations between inverted commas, giving the exact references in notes at the end of her poems.¡§I¡¦ve always felt that if a thing had been said in the very best way, how can you say it better.¡¨For her words, her own or others¡¦, had the power of unifying the most disparate experience¡Đwhat one had read, seen, heard, felt, or thought.