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Modern poets ee cummings
am was • am was. are leaves few this. is these a orscratchily over which of earth dragged once-ful leaf. & were who skies clutch an of poorhow colding hereless. air theres what immenselive without every dancing. singless on-ly a child's eyes float silently downmore than two those that and that noing ourgone snow goneyours mine. We'realive and shall be:cities may overflow(amwas)assassinating whole grassblades,fiveideas can swallow a man;three words im-prison a woman for all her now:but we'vesuch freedom such intense digestion somuch greenness only dying makes us grow I like it because It seems random, but it appears to have a subtle meaning to it once given the time for absorption.
i carry your heart i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) I like it because it’s so sweet! It really describes love perfe- ctly, in cummings’s abstract and beautiful way.
up into the silence the green Again, I like it for the sweetness, and also the way it captures early morning drowsiness, the start of a day. • up into the silence the greensilence with a white earth in ityou will(kiss me)goout into the morning the youngmorning with a warm world in it(kiss me)you will goon into the sunlight the finesunlight with a firm day in ityou will go(kiss medown into your memory anda memory and memoryi)kiss me,(will go)
Analytical paragraph: up into the silence the green The lack of structure creates a vague, dream-like tone in the poem, for example, “on into the sunlight the fine/sunlight with a firm day in it”. This fits in with the time of day that it’s describing, early morning, for early morning tends to have a lingering scent of the dreaminess and vagueness of night.
Why a modernist? • Simply, different • Complete disregard for grammar (punctuation) • Mix-and-match with words • No apparent structure