Editing Eye dialect (section)

===Poetry===
In his 1937 poem "The Arrest of [[Oscar Wilde]] at the Cadogan Hotel", [[John Betjeman]] deploys eye dialect on a handful of words for satirical effect; in this case the folly of the arresting police officers, who are made to seem like comic caricatures of themselves:

<blockquote>
Mr. Woilde, we 'ave come for tew take yew<br />
Where felons and criminals dwell:<br />
We must ask yew tew leave with us quoietly<br />
For this ''is'' the Cadogan Hotel.
</blockquote>

An extreme example of a poem written entirely in (visually barely decipherable) eye dialect is "YgUDuh" by [[E. E. Cummings]], which, as several commentators have noted, makes sense only when read aloud.<ref>Reef, Catherine (2006) ''E.E. Cummings'', New York: Clarion Books, {{ISBN|9780618568499}}, p. 104</ref> In this case, Cummings's target was the attitudes of certain Americans to Japanese people following [[World War II]].