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Is anyone familiar with this poeam by EE cummings, if so wat do u know about it and where i can find info, criticisms about it

2007-05-21 14:32:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Poetry

2 answers

Read it. Carefully. The theme is in the title. By the way, NEVER capitalize e.e. or you will have him rolling over in his grave. Why don't you read up on the poet in Wikipedia?


nobody loses all the time
e.e. cummings

i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he should have gone
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly
added

my Uncle Sol's farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when

my Uncle Sol
had a skunk farm but
the skunks caught cold and
died so
my Uncle Sol imitated the
skunks in a subtle manner

or by drowning himself in the watertank
but somebody who'd given my Unde Sol a Victor
Victrola and records while he lived presented to
him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a
scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with
tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and

i remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my Uncle
Sol

and started a worm farm)

2007-05-21 15:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0 0

cummings lol

2007-05-21 14:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by TrueSource 2 · 0 1

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