my sweet old etcetera... (X) - A poem by e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings - my sweet old etcetera... (X)

my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent

war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting

for,
my sister

isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers

etcetera wristers etcetera, my

mother hoped that

i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my

self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et

cetera
(dreaming,
et
   cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art) Poem: my sweet old etcetera... (X) Poem of the Day: Jan 23 2010 Comment 11 of 11, added on December 31st, 2008 at 11:34 AM. I read somewhere the cummings doesn't like to have his poems interpreted too heavily.. For me, etcetra suggest that everything is just inconsequential, everyone is blabbering about what the war is supposed to be, and all he can think about is daydreaming about "your etcetra" Its kind of a sweet innocent poem.. there is a war going on and all but he is just a teenager... all he is thinking about is his girl and how his family is a constant nuisance. Jason Comment 10 of 11, added on April 21st, 2007 at 11:31 PM. the soldier is in the middle of combat dying and etcetra is every time the soldier starts to pass out from dying hence the subject change Riley Gallagher from United States Comment 9 of 11, added on December 26th, 2006 at 4:44 PM. This is plain, if not simple, satire. And the last Etcetera, referring as it does to the vagina, is comparing the good that is sex against the evil that is war. EEC was a man ahead of his time... Peter from United Kingdom More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, my sweet old etcetera... (X), has received 11 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by e.e. cummings with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: my sweet old etcetera... (X) Last read: Feb 10 2010, 2:09AM Poem of the Day: Jan 23 2010 Viewed 32934 times. Added on December 26th, 2006 at 4:44 PM.

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