Archive for the ‘e.e. cummings’ Category
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
It’s been a long time since I read e.e. cummings, though he was one of my favorite poets in college. Mike’s suggestion that I might want to take a look at his Unitarian roots made me decide to re-read his Collected Poems. I’m enjoying reacquainting myself with his poetry, especially since it gives [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
There’s a surprising number of e.e. cummings’ poems that strike my fancy, but many are so well known it hardly seems worth the bother to present them here. What’s more, many involve Spring, and I’m beginning to wonder if my longing for Spring weather hasn’t altered my very taste in poetry. [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
There’s certainly nothing particularly new about the ideas expressed in cummings’ “101″ but I still love the way he says them, exhibiting both his endearing sense of humor and the ambiguity typical of his best poems.
You gotta love a poem that begins “Humanity i love you” and ends “Humanity i hate you.” Surely, somewhere [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I was a little surprised to discover that I had marked this poem as one of my favorites the first time I read it long ago while in college. I suspect I must have liked it for very different reasons than i do now:
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the sweet & aged people
who rule this world(and [...]
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