all ignorance toboggans into know - A poem by e.e. cummings


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e.e. cummings - all ignorance toboggans into know

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter's not forever,even snow
melts;and if spring should spoil the game,what then?

all history's a winter sport or three:
but were it five,i'd still insist that all
history is too small for even me;
for me and you,exceedingly too small.

Swoop(shrill collective myth)into thy grave
merely to toil the scale to shrillerness
per every madge and mabel dick and dave
--tomorrow is our permanent address

and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: all ignorance toboggans into know Comment 2 of 2, added on April 1st, 2008 at 9:35 AM. this poem is very unique to me. Kassondra from United States Comment 1 of 2, added on May 15th, 2005 at 6:49 AM. Again a poem against the fixed, the dead and confined, the already happend - where there is no place for growth. To know is ignorance because it excludes the further knowing. History is too small, a fixed and dead element that cannot be changed. Thr truth is to be found in the movement, the journey, the unknown of the tomorrow, or the unique moment of "the now". liana pehrsson-berindei from Denmark More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, all ignorance toboggans into know, has received 2 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: all ignorance toboggans into know Last read: May 9 2008, 3:25PM Viewed 12975 times. Added on May 15th, 2005 at 6:49 AM.

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