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e.e. cummings - there are so many tictoc...

there are so many tictoc
    
    there are so many tictoc 
    clocks everywhere telling people 
    what toctic time it is for 
    tictic instance five toc minutes toc 
    past six tic
    
    Spring is not regulated and does 
    not get out of order nor do 
    its hands a little jerking move 
    over numbers slowly
    
    we do not 
    wind it up it has no weights 
    springs wheels inside of 
    its slender self no indeed dear
    nothing of the kind.
    
    (So,when kiss Spring comes 
    we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
    lips because tic clocks toc don't make 
    a toctic difference 
    to kisskiss you and to 
    kiss me)

Added: on December 15th, 2005 at 6:34 PM | Viewed: 6508 times | Comments and analysis of there are so many tictoc... by e.e. cummings Comments (2)


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Poet: e.e. cummings
Poem: there are so many tictoc...

Comment 2 of 2, added on February 13th, 2006 at 7:06 PM.

I feel the sounds add a lot to the message.

They... add a sense of passage to me.

dan
Comment 1 of 2, added on December 15th, 2005 at 6:34 PM.

Did anybody else realize that if you took out all of the "Tictocs" and "toctics" in the first stanza, it makes much more sense. and also in the last stanza, if you take all of the "kiss's" it has a very powerful message.

kmom from United States

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