Poetry for Students

Volume 19 263 the openly social and political, particularly in con- temporary America. Lyons, Paul, Class of ’66: Living in Subu ...

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond Edward Estlin Cummings, known to most of his readers as e. e. cummings, first pub ...

Volume 19 265 Author Biography Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, cum- mings spent his childhood in that city, where his ...

266 Poetry for Students as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are ...

Volume 19 267 not have the human quality of imagination. By de- scribing the rose in this way, the poet paints a unique picture. ...

268 Poetry for Students saying, “your eyes have their silence.” A poet’s ref- erence to the eyes of his beloved is an age-old tr ...

Volume 19 269 to understand the origin of his faith, even though he examines it throughout the poem. Love’s mys- tery, which he ...

270 Poetry for Students that the Stock Market Crash of 1929 helped to usher in this huge economic downturn. As the country began ...

Volume 19 271 should first examine cummings’s overall reputa- tion, since his poetry has often been described in absolute positi ...

272 Poetry for Students any point in the poem. It is as if he wants to indi- cate grammatically the timeless quality of his love ...

Volume 19 273 discuss the mysterious aspects of this natural process. As Baum notes, however, this type of de- scription imposes ...

274 Poetry for Students the practice of “gazing” was used by the thirteenth century Sufi poet and mystic Rumi in his relation- s ...

Volume 19 275 love is building a building,” and which was one of the examples that aroused Bode’s displeasure. It expresses at o ...

276 Poetry for Students “Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. ...

Volume 19 277 sume the same insistent hatred for rationality that they seem in the end to be speaking the poet’s own narrow beli ...

278 Poetry for Students of the songs of the medieval troubadors. I hear this conventional quality often in Cummings, in a poem l ...

Volume 19 279 “Freud’s analysis of the punnings, splittings, and composings in the language of dreams and jokes provides an insi ...

280 Poetry for Students sorry for awl the poor girls that get up god knows when every day of their lives aint you, oo-oo. dearie ...

Volume 19 281 cherishes “mystery,” one of his very favorite words, and spring and flowers. He prays that his heart be always ope ...

282 Poetry for Students Sources Baum, S. V., “E. E. Cummings: The Technique of Imme- diacy,” in South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 5 ...