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ACTIvITy 4.2
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Using language for effect
About the Author
E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894–1962) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard University. He is known for experimenting with form, spelling, and punctuation in his poetry, and he kept to the unique style that he developed through this experimentation throughout his career. At the time of his death in 1962, Cummings was one of the most widely read American poets, and his popularity endures to this day.
poetry
languid: limp, drooping
my Notes
maggieand milly and mollyand may
by E. E. Cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
5 milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone 10 as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
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