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Poet: e.e. cummings
Poem: the boys i mean are not refined
Comment 15 of 15, added on March 18th, 2008 at 5:21 PM.
First off, I love e.e. cummings' poetry and have been looking for more. This site has been the answer to that.
Anywho, I noticed that everyone here seems to have missed what jumped out at me most: Especially compared to his other poems, the language e.e. cummings uses here is itself unrefined. He is not a poet who tends to spew colorful language like a sailor, as he seems to in this poem.
From what I can tell, he is intentionally being ironic here. I have to look at this poem some more. e.e. cummings tends to be easy to glaze over, and it's too easy to just ignore the meaning if you skim a poem.
You don't have to be an english scholar, but he certainly makes you think a little.
Ben from United States
Comment 14 of 15, added on December 11th, 2006 at 2:11 AM.
When I read this poem, it gives me a raging hard boner.
Leeroy Jenkins from United States
Comment 13 of 15, added on April 27th, 2006 at 5:32 PM.
I'm doing a report on this poem for a literature class which I really don't care to write but...here's what I've recieved from the poem. I think it's broader than JUST war. I think it expands in to the risks of what children of his generation thought of as despicable. E.E. Cummings grew up a rich child, played with other children who became famous and had parents who were wealthy. He often met other kids who weren't as fortunate in the backgrounds like him, the slum children. He grew up quite innocently really, it was probably a culture shock when he met these types of children and had spurts of arguments; and name calling with them. (Source: Dreams in the Mirror, A Biography of E.E. Cummings Richard S. Kennedy)
Can someone tell me when this poem was written?
(not given) from United States
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First off, I love e.e. cummings' poetry and have been looking for more. This site has been the answer to that.
Anywho, I noticed that everyone here seems to have missed what jumped out at me most: Especially compared to his other poems, the language e.e. cummings uses here is itself unrefined. He is not a poet who tends to spew colorful language like a sailor, as he seems to in this poem.
From what I can tell, he is intentionally being ironic here. I have to look at this poem some more. e.e. cummings tends to be easy to glaze over, and it's too easy to just ignore the meaning if you skim a poem.
You don't have to be an english scholar, but he certainly makes you think a little.
Ben from United States