Comments on: Poetry Saturdays: e.e. cummings

By: Fuchsia

Fuchsia — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:30:28 +0000

Funnyface, I think you probably mean “she being Brand”. I love cummings, but I have to say I honestly don’t know how I feel about having the woman in the poem compared to a car… :/

By: That Girl

That Girl — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:10:12 +0000

I love cummings! The one you posted is one of my all time favorite poems, but I’m planning on getting a tattoo of “since feeling is first” on my side. I also love “it is so long since my heart has been with yours” and “i sing of olaf glad and big.” My 11th grade English teacher taught me to love poetry through cummings.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:08:30 +0000

@PhDork, I love Millay. I’m not much of a poetry reader, but I do own a book of some of her poems.

By: Alice Winfree Bowron

Alice Winfree Bowron — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:32:02 +0000

I discovered e.e. cummings in 10th grade; tuned into his politics in addition to his magical writings. My fave segment of another of his ‘Spring’ poems [not quoting this in the same format as he wrote it]:

“While you and I
have lips and voices
which are for kissing and to sing with

Who cares if some one-eyed sonofabitch
invents an instrument
to measure Spring with?”

{loved this particular way of describing an uninspiring/uninspired scientist staring into a microscope….}

By: Clare K. R. Miller

Clare K. R. Miller — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:38:27 +0000

Oh, I adore Cummings. I may be a Shakespeare fangirl, but Cummings is my favorite romantic poet. My favorite of his is, I believe, “in Just-spring.” The goat-footed balloonman. <3

By: BearDownCBears

BearDownCBears — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:09:39 +0000

“He taught us in a portable classroom – do Americans have those?”

Heh. Yes. AKA Plan B for when not enough duffer voters died that year for the millage to pass.

By: PhDork

PhDork — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:45 +0000

love cummings. Love American poetry from the first half of the 20th century generally. (Esp. Millay. Maybe I’ll do one of hers sometime.) “pity this busy monster, manunkind” is my fave.

By: Ari

Ari — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:07:37 +0000

My very favorite cummings poem is “it may not always be so”, I love the idea of being accepting of love lost, and still taking joy in the fact that there was love. Also “O sweet spontaneous” is another one of my favorites.

By: Blind Irish Pirate

Blind Irish Pirate — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:39:40 +0000

I have a very amateur love for cummings, hHaving only read a scattered select poems. My favorite is “Because it’s,” which required more than idle thought to read it.

By: afteriris

afteriris — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:53:41 +0000

I like “who knows if the moon” which I read to my daughter from a big anthology of grown-up poetry for children. She loves it.

I also love “i carry your heart” but I hate the way it’s read at weddings ALL. THE. TIME. It makes me think of my other daughter who died. It’s so far away from wedding-style love for me.