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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: anyone lived in a pretty how town
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Oct 27 2000
Comment 176 of 176, added on May 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 PM.
I say, its not really what people think it is...at first sight it looks like a love story, Anyone is in love with Noone and there love was until the end. Really? are you sure about that? Read it slowly and carefully, what does the tittle says? Anyone lived in a pretty how town, Anyone represents any person,it could be you or me. Now the tricky part is the "pretty how town" what does the persona refers with this...look closely and think of this words like a question... pretty, how? how is this town pretty, where people just don't care for others, when even in a funeral they buried you doing other stuff not showing respect, they don't respect even death. So in other words this town is not pretty at all, is a fake. Now the "love story". anyone is in love with noone, come on that does not have a real meaning, anyone could be any person on this horrible town. Now noone, is not a person, come on!!! its obvious, it represents nothing, that its all. They were buried together, obviously we are in an era which people are not buried together anymore. So in other words if they were buried together it means any person was buried with no one, in other words, alone. So does that sound like a happy ending...i don't think so
@ from United States
Comment 175 of 176, added on May 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 PM.
Remarkable, really amazing how Cummings play with words. At first sight i was like WTH, but then i started to realize what really the persona was trying to say. In the end i realize this poem expresses more sadness than happiness. First of all a pretty how town its a metaphor of a imaginary town, the town of every person imagination, because in real life there is no pretty town. Anyone represents any person on this imaginary town, you and me. And noone represents the loneliness of people, that in the end will be the one that has and will be there for you.
Cris from United States
Comment 174 of 176, added on February 16th, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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I say, its not really what people think it is...at first sight it looks like a love story, Anyone is in love with Noone and there love was until the end. Really? are you sure about that? Read it slowly and carefully, what does the tittle says? Anyone lived in a pretty how town, Anyone represents any person,it could be you or me. Now the tricky part is the "pretty how town" what does the persona refers with this...look closely and think of this words like a question... pretty, how? how is this town pretty, where people just don't care for others, when even in a funeral they buried you doing other stuff not showing respect, they don't respect even death. So in other words this town is not pretty at all, is a fake. Now the "love story". anyone is in love with noone, come on that does not have a real meaning, anyone could be any person on this horrible town. Now noone, is not a person, come on!!! its obvious, it represents nothing, that its all. They were buried together, obviously we are in an era which people are not buried together anymore. So in other words if they were buried together it means any person was buried with no one, in other words, alone. So does that sound like a happy ending...i don't think so
@ from United States