Wednesday, March 26, 2008

I absolutely love e.e. cummings’ poetry! I like that one of his main focuses in his poetry is nature. Now I know most poets write plenty about nature. However, the way cummings puts words together is kind of close to magic. I love how he squishes words together and omits punctuation and then moves words around to make the meaning more clear. My favorite one of his poems in the Sword Anthology is “maggie and milly and molly and may”. Each of the girls has a unique experience at the beach and it reflects their personality. The last line “For whatever we lost(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” is something I never really thought about before is true.

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