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[Prometheus !okYtVqtXVE No.3194489]

e.e. cummi ngs.

[Anonymous No.3194492]

Love this guy

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194506]

>>3194492
Have many more poems to post.

[Anonymous No.3194509]

>>3194506

One of my favorites

[Anonymous No.3194514]

>>3194489
> high modernism
> a cat sleeping on a keyboard

Will our contestants be able to tell the difference? Stay tuned and find out!

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194527]

Viva is pr(o)bably my favorite collection of his.

I like how he has motifs between his poems, of both topics and structure.
Like how he's always splitting up twi -light.

>>3194514
These are from the time in between WWI and WWII.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194536]

Unfortunately I can only get goo pictures of single page poems, and some of his really good ones in this book are two pages long.

There are 70 poems in total though, so If you want to see a specific or random one, just post a number.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194538]

I have a feeling I will be reciting an improvised soliloquy for much of this thread.

[Anonymous No.3194540]

>>3194489
wut language iz dat

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194541]

>>3194538
Nonsense you have me to talk to.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194543]

>>3194540
What language is that?

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194550]

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194551]

I love how most of these poem are good poems in writing alone, and become great when the structure comes into play.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194555]

After looking at these,
you never see CAPTCHA
the same way again.

Would someone please
try and maybe fetch a
poem about elstin?

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194561]

If anyone has the time
to and with that a good head
we can make this a thread
where we all speak in rhyme.

[Anonymous No.3194563]

>>3194555
I like e.e. cummings' use of structure but half the time I have no clue what he is saying. Is this supposed to be expected? Also greath thread David

[Anonymous No.3194567]

It takes a trained eye and mind to see real beauty, but also to distort itself into calling something ugly beautiful. But everyone knows shit when they see it.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194568]

Of course the snobs will gripe,
saying rhyming is only for fools.
Well low hanging fruit can be picked ripe,
but the highest fruit needs a good set of tools.

[Anonymous No.3194572]

>>3194567
FALSE, a lot of plebian trash follow those deluded other ones just for the sake of seeming patrician, as this thread clearly demonstrates.

[Anonymous No.3194573]

>>3194567

Cummings isn't shit. He's one of the greatest modernist poets.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194586]

>>3194567
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
anything can be by anyone revered,
but you have all beauty collected in one folder,
and hope that the ugly is shunned and feared.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194591]

My favorite poem is XXXVIII
which is about lightning and rain
and violence coming from the sky
but ends with earth being peaceful again.

[Anonymous No.3194595]

>>3194591
>XXXVIII
Post it dude

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194601]

>>3194595
Alas its pages are one.five
which is .five pages too long,
perhaps I can give 2 pictures a try,
and no one will think I've done wrong.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194604]

>>3194601
High resolution
you once were my friend
but I need a solution
to make my size problem end.

[Anonymous No.3194605]

>>3194601
Does writing the line # really help?

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194611]

>>3194605
For me it's very very helpful
when I want the line number
which is not at all useful
because of the structure.

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3194616]

I'm going to sleep now in my bed
but please do not go about mourning
for their are many poems up ahead
when I wake up in the morning.

[Anonymous No.3194626]

>>3194611
what

[Anonymous No.3194956]

>>3194611

this is great

[Anonymous No.3194963]

>>3194611

This is beautiful.

[Prometheus !okYtVqtXVE No.3196467]

Bu)(Mp

[Anonymous No.3196481]

I've got his complete poems. Some good stuff in there.

Here's some Arabic calligraphy of I Carry Your Heart With Me (I Carry

[Anonymous No.3197178]

Bumping for OP. He said he was going to be back but I don't see any updates. OP, if you're reading this, I'd very much appreciate more as I'm sure others would

[Anonymous No.3197199]

>>3196481
lyl

[Anonymous No.3197260]

>>3194514
>>3194540
you people are lazy or stupid

it's phonetic, and cummings is godly

first line:
>i'll tell the world i says

not that hard

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3197280]

>>3197178
I am reading this now
and it has touched my heart,
I said I'd be back & I'll show thou
Time for this thread to restart.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.3197283]

>>3194489
U kint fool me. Das sum Jaimz Jois

[Urs !rueCnldwoQ No.3197289]

>>3197280
yayyy

[Anonymous No.3197295]

>>3197280
>(check undublcheck)

[Anonymous No.3197299]

*stares at canvas with random splotches on it * hmm ahh mm, mhm, ah yes, mm, ahhh ah mhm mm ah, yes i get it *touches beard*

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3197324]

>>3197299
I've always tht his structure
was an affect of his presence
in the trenches of the 1st world war
where he was a medic driving an ambulance.

[Anonymous No.3197352]

Am I stupid for not understanding any of this?
Reading this makes me feel disoriented as well as frustrated because of all his phonologic and syntactical changes

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3197416]

>I am far too tired to rhyme right now.
>>3197352
Not at all, I'm working at understanding them better myself, mainly through interpretation,
I'll post annotated versions when I finish them/.

[Anonymous No.3197428]

why cant all art be roses are red poems and thomas kinkade paintings?

[David !9EiGHTeLOg No.3197484]

[Anonymous No.3197513]

>>3197352
The fact that it's hard to understand what he was going for is what makes it great art you fucking pleb.

[Anonymous No.3197545]

>>3197513

You're the worst kind of poster on this board, regardless of how one reads this.

[Anonymous No.3198236]

I've found that there's always a familiar-sounding poem at the center of each of EE Cummings' works. A lot of the poems I've read by him have a capricious quality, like they know exactly what they're saying but they frolic around a bit before they tell you.

For people who're new to him, read "l(a", "[in Just-]", and "maggie and milly and molly and may". These three are some of his more straightforward, so they should help anybody who can't make heads or tails of his choices in syntax.

[Anonymous No.3198249]

>>3197513

> fsfgdsggeafgew1234564128256void main **argvfdsfdfd pakistan israel fds5t fsdv x >>>>>>>>**++ shitbomb

Pls decipher my genius great art, pleb.

[Anonymous No.3198258]

>>3197545
you are the best, monsieur.

[Anonymous No.3198264]

>>3194489
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poem

[Anonymous No.3198293]

>>3197352
you need to drop the presumption that there is some meaning or narrative to be uncover, some puzzle to be solved in his poetry

a lot of the stuff here and elsewhere is taking an experience and trying to use the way words sound to faithfully reproduce his subjective thoughts or feelings about it. take for example the poem that begins "luminous tendril of celestial wish". if he used language efficiently, it would just be "looking at the moon made me feel hopeful"

a lot of the notation is also about how he read the poems aloud. so to take the easy example, words in all caps are loud, things in parenthesis are said more quietly, etc.

and then there other poems which are of course impossible to read aloud, and they're best looked at for the visual impact. his famous poem about the grasshopper: the letters in the word "grasshopper" are rearranged until the end, reflecting his experience of noticing something in nature but not recognizing it until the grasshopper came into plain view.

[Anonymous No.3198304]

>>3198293

>his famous poem about the grasshopper: the letters in the word "grasshopper" are rearranged until the end, reflecting his experience of noticing something in nature but not recognizing it until the grasshopper came into plain view.

So that's what that poem was about. Not the anon you responded to, but thanks.

[Anonymous No.3198310]

>>3198249
Why don't you do it yourself?

Lazy ass.

[Anonymous No.3198328]

>>3198310
>Why don't you do it yourself?

Great art can't be explained in a powerpoint bullet-point summary, you pleb! You need to let it flow and uncover the amazing lyrical feels, the sublime prose!

[Anonymous No.3198377]

>>3197260
Help me figure it out. This is what I got so far:

I'll tell the world I says
do ya understand me he says pullin his mustache, I
don't give a shit I says. Tom
I don't want to do it, but I gotta
break you, that's what he says to me. (Now I ask ya
well don't that make your ass turn
green? I'll say so.)---Who'll
[spairruh luckih?] Thank God. Merci.
My jacks all gone. For Christ's sake.
Ain't nobody got nothin' to play?
Hey

you with the permanent [waiv un duhyookuh] something or other
give us a tune [unduhphugnting]

[Anonymous No.3198419]

>>3198377
good work so far, i'm impressed you didn't just google it at this point

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/oiltel6.htm

[Anonymous No.3198425]

>>3198419
I got decently close. I like this poem a lot.

[Anonymous No.3198432]

>>3198377
Who'll spare ya luck, eh?

[Anonymous No.3198477]

>>3198377
>>3198432
if you looked at the link you'd see it was

spare a Lucky? Thanks kid.

to be fair, this is only obvious if you knew of cummings' career as an ambulance driver in wwi