i am a little church (no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower
my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying) children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
i am a little churchc (far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish) at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence beomes singing
winter by spring, i life my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)
i got an assignment on poetry and i choose 'i carry your hearts with me' by ee cummings.
but there is a part of in one of the lines that i don't understand what it means.
'Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide...'
i do not understands what it means by 'a tree called life'
what its figurative meanings??
i need help ASAP.
because this assignment is due next week!!
It's driving me insane! I read the poem and know I've heard the following lines in a movie somewhere:
this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
I'm just wondering if anyone knows which movie it's in? I can't work it out and it's seriously bugging me.
Thanks!! :)
I'm looking for some good modern poets or good modern poetry. I'm familiar with TS Eliot and a lot of his works, so I'm interested in some of his contemporaries and their famous works.
I know that like, Ezra Pound and EE Cummings were of the same era and movement. I just don't know what their best work is.
Plato Told
E.E. Cummings
plato told
him; he couldn't
believe it (jesus
told him; he
wouldn't believe
it) lao
tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes
mam)
Sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not) you
told him: i told
him; we told him
(he didn't believe it, no
sir) it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sizth
avenue
el; in the top of his head to tell
him
If by EE Cummings
If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,-
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven, and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,-
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
Thanks.
I love Lorca, Neruda, Baudelaire, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Apollinaire, Poe, Pound, ee. cummings and W.S. Merwin. Eliot, Whitman and Frost are decent. I dislike Dickinson, Keats, and pretty much all the ancient poets.
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
ee cummings
Yes, I have sadly yet inevitably procrastinated on my summer Literature homework. But I'm not going to blow it off- I just need help selecting a poetry book. For those who are familiar with a lot of poets, which one out of this list typically has shorter, easier to understand poetry? If there's a good book of theirs you have in mind (has to be on the shorter side though), I would love any suggestions!
Maya Angelou
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Pat Mora
Naomi Shihab Nye
Anne Sexton
W.H. Auden
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Donne
Louise Glick
Toni Morrison
Octavio Paz
Kevin Stein
Jimmy Santiago Baca
ee cummings
T.S. Eliot
Joy Harjo
Pablo Neruda
Adrienne Rich
Walt Whitman
Does anyone have an analysis of this poem, or what they think this poem means? Or any sites that have an analysis? Please tell me, thank you! :)
If (by: e e cummings)
If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
I'm quoting an excerpt from an ee cummings poem in a newspaper column, and i'm just double checking that that's kosher. (i know, i know...go ask your editor. I would if my weren't so....useless when it comes to this sort of thing) thanks
*****
Plato told
—e.e. Cummings
plato told
him:he couldn't
believe it(jesus
told him;he
wouldn't believe
it)lao
tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes
mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn't believe it,no
sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell
him
*****
Particularly with this line: "ere with the dirt death shall him vastly gird" because I have no idea what it means. However, I do grasp the main concepts. Any insights? And please don't say it's not supposed to mean anything, because that doesn't help me at all.
Thanks for that answer. Also, these lines: god's terrible face,brighter than a spoon,
collects the image of one fatal word.
I carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
ee cummings
Is this a good poem for me to read at my sisters wedding? We are really close
t has been claimed that cummings’ poetry is of importance because he subverts the conventional styles and structures of poetry. Discuss the significance of cummings’ style and structure in relation to two or more poems.
^^ can anyone help me with this?
thank you so much :)
It has been claimed that cummings’ poetry is of importance because he subverts the conventional styles and structures of poetry. Discuss the significance of cummings’ style and structure in relation to two or more poems.
^^ can anyone help me with this?
I have to do a speech on ee cumming's views on war. Could someone help me think of an intro I could say? I'm incorporating the poems ygUDuh and i sing of olaf
thanks :)
here is little Effie's head by ee cummings
here is little Effie's head
whose brains are made of gingerbread
when judgment day comes
God will find six crumbs
stooping by the coffinlid
waiting for something to rise
as the other somethings did-
you imagine his surprise
bellowing through the general noise
Where is Effie who was dead?
-to God in a tiny voice,
i am may the first crumb said
whereupon its fellow five
crumbs chuckled as if they were alive
and number two took up the song
might i'm called and did no wrong
cried the third crumb, i am should
and this is my little sister could
with our big brother who is would
don't punish us for we were good;
the poem was too long to paste. there were only a few more stanzas: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/here-is-little-effie-s-head/
--> who is Effie? <--
i have to explain this poem but i've got no clue. if i had to guess, i'd say Effie is a gingerbread man/cookie who is about to get eaten ; help please
Basically says it all in the title.
I was wondering how surrealism had an effect on the poetry written by ee cummings.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Does anyone know about the influence of cubism on EE Cummings' works?
Also, how white space and the fragmentation of his sentences make meaning. Specific examples would be appreciated :)
THANK YOU! :D
It's my favorite poem by ee cummings
and I'v got a little while untill we actually do get married, I just want to get a lot of the little details out of the way before hand. I would love to recite this to my fiancee on the day of our wedding. I want to hear what yall think.
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
ee cumming
This girl who Ive started to become annoyed with has staretd to show signs that she copies me. Last night in her car, she played music that shes said she doesn't like (its the genre of music I listen to, she likes electro I like 60s garage)
She played a song that I had set on my myspace profile the night before (she views my profile everyday). She asked me about this band I had on my myspace profile prior (she would never have ehard of them if I hadnt set them on my profile, basically she downlaods and researches what I like)
I went to the cigar shop and asked for Fantasias and she said ,"omg are those the coloured cigs? can I get those too!" (she already had a full pack of her own)
A friend who stopped talking to her liked bukowski and ee cummings , so she started to like them too!
She does the same with the B movies I like, she says she likes them too after I say I do.
Why is she doing this?
I do. My sister died suddenly and I need her to know this:
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my truth) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can comprehend) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) ee cummings.
Thanks for allowing me to express my grief.
this poem is any good or not! I wrote it yesterday for an assignment we have due Friday, to be part of a booklet. I've always been fascinated with ee cummings and I thought it would be an interested tribute.
Unfortunately, I don't want to post it here. I don't need future generations to use it and, mostly, I don't want to be accused of plaigarizing from my own Question on Yahoo!
But, if you have any interest to help me out and tell me whether it is good or bad, please drop me a line at "Saggiodragy" on AIM or e-mail me at twwright(at)gmail(dot)com.
It's only a four line poem, really. And to fully get it, you'll probably want to have Microsoft Word or an equivelant.
Like I said, I'm just at a loss as to whether it's good or bad. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
-Thomas W.
(P.S. It's called "if ee cummings")
it needs to be short and by a classic author. emily dickinson ar ee cummings or something like that.... i also need it to be about how you don't need destruction or hate. peace can save the world or something along those lines
its for an i movie project where we are supposed to use a song and a classical poem together and use pictures and videos to bring out the mood and theme.....so y'all know.....
"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country 'tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
by EE Cummings
I need to chose a poet and critique 3 of his/her poems. there are some suggested poets.
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
Anne Sexton
Richard Wilbur
Gwendolyn Brooks
Philip Larkin
Dylan Thomas (a bit difficult)
W.H. Auden
Langston Hughes
EE Cummings
Marianne Moore
Ezra Pound
H.D.
Robert Frost
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Christina Rosetti
W.B. Yeats
Lewis Carroll
Thomas Hardy
Emily Bronte
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
which one should I choose? If you have other poet suggestions I 'll appraciate it.
may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
What do y'all think?
I need help analyzing these poems. Identify the speaker, tone, mood and themes.
"My father moved through the dooms of love" EE Cummings
"A Litany" Gregory Orr
"Those Winter Days" Robert Hayden
"Parents" William Meredith
"Father's Song" Gregory Orr
"Grief Call Us o the Things of This World" Sherman Alexie
You don't have to analyze all the poems just those you know and/or understand best.
I am in high school, and for a project my english teacher is requiring us to pick a poet from the list below, write a paper and teach a 25 min lesson to the class on that poet. Here are the options: We want funny poems that relate to HS seniors. Nothing "emo." And we want modern :) thanks :)
W.H auden
elizabeth bishop
william blake
anne bradstreet
ek brathwaite
gwendolyn brooks
elizabeth browning
lord byron
lorna dee cervantes
geoffrey chaucer
samuel taylor coolridge
ee cummings
hilda doolittle
john donne
rita dove ts eliot joy harjo
seamus heaney
george herbert
garrett hongo
gerard manley hopkins
langston hughes
ben johnson
john keats
philip larkin
dh lawrence
robert lowell
andrew marvell
john milton
marianne moore
pablo neruda
sylvia plath alexander pope
ezra pound
adrienne rich ann sexton percy shelley leslie silko cathy song edna millay alfred tennyson dylan thomas derek walcott richard wilbur william carlos williams william wordsworth william yeat
What is he saying? I'd like to see peoples interpretations so i can form some ideas of my own ....also why do the last lines of the poem seem to not go with the rest- and be kind of random?
it is at moments after I have dreamed
by EE Cummings
it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
at moments when the glassy darkness holds
the genuine apparition of your smile
(it was through tears always)and silence moulds
such strangeness as was mine a little while;
moments when my once more illustrious arms
are filled with fascination,when my breast
wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:
one pierced moment whiter than the rest
-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
in ee cummings poem, he compares death to dying. eh?
dying is fine)but Death
?o
baby
i
wouldn't like
Death if Death
were
good:for
when(instead of stopping to think)you
begin to feel of it,dying
's miraculous
why?be
cause dying is
perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly lively(but
Death
is strictly
scientific
& artificial &
evil & legal)
we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death
I'm writing a story and i need help finding a poem that discusses love with some depth. I wanted to use "i carry your heart with me" by ee cummings but it's been really over used.. anyone can help in giving names of Poets?
