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E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) discovered an original way of describing the chaotic immediacy of sensuous experience. He played games with language and form and put forth a deliberately simplistic view of the world, giving his poems a gleeful and precocious tone. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., attended Harvard and studied Art in Paris.
i can't believe i've never seen this before...it's brilliant and i love it. i will admit that it took me a minute to figure it out because of the way it's arranged though. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is masterly, I love it.
ReplyDeleteIt's short and long at the same time.
Good choice. There is an interesting debate about the structure of this poem and whether it's a 1 or an L at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/1-a-a-leaf-falls-on-loneliness/comments.asp
ReplyDeletebut if it were a 1 it wouldn't spell lonliness, it would say 1 (a leaf falls) one liness.
ReplyDeleteperhaps that's why he spelled out the word, one, so fools wouldn't think such things. and who's the mysterious liness? that's silly.
There was no "one" on standard typewriters at the time. In typing class ages ago I was taught to use the "l" key for both. It may be that cummings left it deliberately ambiguous, subject to a mental overlay of two simultaneous interpretations.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the the 1 could be both a one and an l at the same time, because one is also alone and is due to that lonely
ReplyDeleteThat is so very smart!!
ReplyDeleteOnly someone like Cummings could think such stuff.
Mind-boggling..
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did he have to be so good? *sigh*
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