Cummings A Leaf Falls
L a is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters.
Cummings a leaf falls. Cummings this poem l a a leaf falls with loneliness remains one of the cummings most fascinating. Honesty may be the best policy but its important to remember that apparently by elimination dishonesty is the second best policy. Cummings fascinates me because it exists outside of the aural dimension we usually associate with poetry. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximim of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
L a a leaf falls with loneliness by ee. The very word loneliness and phrase a leaf falls have been separated. The effect is all the more powerful because l a a leaf falls with loneliness is so short. This poem by e.
1a le af fa ll s one l iness. Returning to cummings brief poem which well call a leaf falls on loneliness for convenience sake we can analyse loneliness as the more general abstract universal theme or backdrop onto which or into which is inserted the local momentary observation of the falling leaf. Cummings even though theres a stunning array of color in autumn theres something inherently melancholy about watching the leaves drop. No longer a group of letters joined together to form words individual letters stand comparatively alone.
It is the first poem in his 1958 collection 95 poems1 la is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. 1a le af fa ll s one l iness. The words we can extract from the poem are loneliness and a leaf falls interestingly a leaf falls is embedded within loneliness. Let these five.
It is the first poem in his 1958 collection 95 poems. A leaf falls on loneliness for ee. When the text is laid out horizontally it either reads as l a leaf fallsoneliness in other words a leaf falls inserted between the first two letters of loneliness or l a le af fa ll s one l iness with a le af fa ll s between a l and one. Somehow i received a visual imagery of waiting for that leaf to fall.
La is a poem by e. Falling leaves suggest death decline the coming of winter. L a is a poem by e. Leaf was some that was notice.
When the text is laid out horizontally it reads as la leaf fallsoneliness in other words a leaf falls inserted between the first two letters of loneliness2. It functions like visual art but sticks in the head like poetry. After decades it still captivates its readers even though it is only a few words long.