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The Dreamy Nature of Love in Cummings' Poetry

This text explores the exquisite blend of abstract imagery and emotional depth found in E.E. Cummings’ poetry. It captures the essence of love, freedom, and the beauty of existence through unconventional language and structure. By examining lines like "I carry your heart," we uncover a tender exploration of connection and the human experience amidst the silence and vibrance of early morning. Cummings’ disregard for traditional grammar reflects a modernist approach, emphasizing the dream-like quality of his work and inviting readers to reflect on love’s profound simplicity and complexity.

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The Dreamy Nature of Love in Cummings' Poetry

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  1. Modern poets ee cummings

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. Why a modernist? • Simply, different • Complete disregard for grammar (punctuation) • Mix-and-match with words • No apparent structure

  7. Freedom is a breakfastfood

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