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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: in Just-
Poem of the Day:
Aug 31 2000
Comment 96 of 96, added on November 16th, 2009 at 12:47 PM.
in just
i think this poem is about how spring is the time where everything is reborn and young and new and fresh and pure and innocent- so it's naturally the time where children are drawn to play outside in the nature and beauty of the earth and really connect with each other and the enviornment around them. and even though it is beautiful and fresh its also beautiful in from a child's eyes: ex. "mud-lucious" and "world of puddles" - who appreciates puddles besides a kid? then the balloonman represents an adult who has to signal to call in the children and herd them in from their play back into the counterinnocent world of adults. and the lame, queer, and goat-footed are merely insults whispered behind the adult's back by the children for interupting and trying to alter their fun. because wouldn't it be great if the world worked where you could play outside and connect with the earth and your playmates and not have to ever "come inside" or answer to that call? and yet "adulthood" takes over and whistles for us.
kassidy from United States
Comment 95 of 96, added on April 29th, 2009 at 8:05 PM.
Mud-luscious!I love his style. This has to be my favorite of his poems.
RoXanne from Australia
Comment 94 of 96, added on March 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 PM.
I think this poem is symbol of the deep love of a flower. wee is a latin word defined by the root word weaa which means beauty. Ee cummings wrote many poems about spring, flowers, and love (see "somewhere i have never traveled and when serpents bargain for the right to squirm). His deep love for flowers can be shown by the use of the latin root and by the balloon man. A balloon man can always be seen in spring floating around the rose bushes with his array of balloons.
roger swatchit from Vietnam
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i think this poem is about how spring is the time where everything is reborn and young and new and fresh and pure and innocent- so it's naturally the time where children are drawn to play outside in the nature and beauty of the earth and really connect with each other and the enviornment around them. and even though it is beautiful and fresh its also beautiful in from a child's eyes: ex. "mud-lucious" and "world of puddles" - who appreciates puddles besides a kid? then the balloonman represents an adult who has to signal to call in the children and herd them in from their play back into the counterinnocent world of adults. and the lame, queer, and goat-footed are merely insults whispered behind the adult's back by the children for interupting and trying to alter their fun. because wouldn't it be great if the world worked where you could play outside and connect with the earth and your playmates and not have to ever "come inside" or answer to that call? and yet "adulthood" takes over and whistles for us.
kassidy from United States