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i strongly disagree with JamesLinde. cummings truly was a genius in that he had the creativity, cunning, courage, and ability to distort the english language and still become an established poet. no one had ever written like this before, so maybe the actual writing itself isn't genius, but the idea is. and i don't think he was just "having fun fooling around" because this is the style of many of his poems. this was the way he wanted to express his thoughts and ideas. and poetry is not supposed to be black and white, something you can easily derive meaning from. you are supposed to colour it in, to relate it however you want, to try to guess what the author was saying but also add your own opinions and thoughts and experiences to the process. that's why i love cummings so much, because he does leave many of his poems open for interpretation.
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I don't like this. I don't think its a joke, but I don't find it displays any sort of recognizable genius. Seems to me he's just having fun fooling around. To Chellie - of course his poetry means something - but we'll have to choose our own meaning, won't we? And if we influence the meaning (by choosing it) it won't really be genius anymore. It's too vague for me to be sure of interpretations like the one given by PetrifiedAfforded. And I dislike choosing my own meaning for poetry. Means that I'm basically coloring in the lines with my own experiences, my own meaning, which doesn't sit right with me. Its his poem. His experiences. Suppose we're all getting it wrong? He could've colored it differently, after all. 0_o this turned into a rant. sorry bout that.
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not 1500 lines but discipline
with a splotch of a splash this is announcing while affirming "!blac"
"k"
settlement time
yet drown in your denim moment as there's a curtaining of nature that's "agains"
feel the s rings
and the booming halted as "t" --
its own tone
stretch
while intermitentently there's a "(whi)", an eyeyeball opens the question of lightening speed
towards my favorite line, "te sky"/
the tellurium of it as earth is under it, the THE without the h of hot staying. Ihe electricity is not from a city, it's not a skyscraper production and we're prompted about to pauses like Psalm 36:4 'For with you is the source of life;
By light from you we can see light' with a retina of undercurrents and the intermingling choreography notes of the chromatic scale.
Line 7 is watchful if there will be more thunder,
"?t"
that is situational over a look at the trees within the spelling splitting to the breeze or "rees whic"...some might being a wick of the storm.
Which has the example "h fr" or hot fir it seems
and that's broken to every morning almost being felt dropped with "om droppe"
as we're transitioned to the d of a landing leaf where an a comes afterwards as thought tends to be backwards to what that was as you recollect senses.
and that a has just breath the throb of more words as a:;go has us quickened to the lovely fastness of a pendulum
with a whirling leaf now.
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Crazy...golly i love that man...Edward Estlin Cummings...there will never be another...sigh...
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I agree with you. Oh, I already commented on this. Okay.
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Cummings is soooooo amazing. I am so in love with him. He is a genius. I hate when people say he was just lazy. They act like his poetry means nothing. Whether or not he was lazy, it gave his poetry a very intricate, noticeable style. His words are beautiful. And I love the placement of the words. Sometimes I find that they can be read more than one way. It's awesome.
This is just another example of his genius.
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I love how e. e. cummings throws all of the rules out the window and manages to pull it off. He manipulates grammar and puncuation in a way that makes a greater impact on the reader than most poems that follow a set form or pattern.
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I'm sorry to say that where the punctuation is no joke at all. When I first looked at a Cumming's piece, I could have thought the same. However, Cumming's style is like this. He's the only poet in history to be able to write like this- it's harder than you believe. He uses broken up words to show emotion. You can't look at a Cumming's poem half the time and approach it in an intellectual manner- it's mostly emotion, or to deal with the minds eye. If you try and decode this poem, you ruin it.
To be honest, if you think about it, I think this is about a storm coming into land. Black against the white sky.
Black being storm clouds against a sky covered in white clouds.
Chellie
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The structure reminds me of blowing in the wind, broken and confused... maybe this is what it means?
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Thisis not my most favorite style of writing. Although I am a huge fan of this author. I enjoy his works immensely and I am so thrilled to see many of my favorites here. I feel like a kid rolling down a grassy hill. Yippee!!
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I have always love Cummings' work. mysterious and so many different interpretations. I love his style of writing.
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Here I am, new to Cummings' work, and I think this is awesome. It seems that, as a poet, I'm always being told to follow the rules. Maybe that's because only the best are allowed to break them, and in that case, ee would be one of the best. I like the author's creativity, I think it's inspiring. The meaning of this piece is really open to interpretation, I think that the picture of a single leaf whirling to the ground is one we can all draw our own emotions from. Cummings has a new fan.
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No, this is far from a joke my friend. He purposely wrote this like for a purpose. The reason I believe it did was because he could care less what others thought of it. Either take it or accept it. That is what I gather from reading his biblography, and interviews.
The poem was twisted and metaphor. The scene he potrayed in here was to me dark and dead. Awesome job e.e.
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i think the strategically placed punctuation makes the poem kinetic, it almost appears to move as the leaf falling would. the final line, ".g" ends the poem abruptly, as the twirling leaf would reach the ground. i think the black against white sky is the dead trees in winter, the cold scene also gives it a feeling of closure as the leaf reaches its destination, like the end of death.
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i dont think this is a joke, really. The incorrect usage of punctuation seems more like he's trying to create a lost feeling.. being thrown around and not knowing what you're doing. I don't know, that's what I got out of it.
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I think this is more of a joke since he uses puctuation in this piece is in inncorrect places before the begining lines.
I think this one is about ideas in genearal that the twirling leaves are a mwtaphor for thoughts or emotions and black against white sky may suggest opposing emotions which would cause conflit and would go along with the stae of emotional twirlling
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