When I was a young child, my family and I would always go to a tree farm to cut down a christmas tree. It was a big tradition in my family which we did every single year. I would always be so excited when we pulled up to the tree farms, with pine trees as far as the eye could see. My family would walk around looking for the perfect tree, when we found it we would cut it down. Then we would strap it to the top of our car. After this, we’d go home and put up our beloved christmas tree and decorate it. In the poem “little tree” by E.E Cummings, a boy and his sister find a christmas tree and bringing it home. This poem can interpreted in many different ways, such as the literal interpretation of a christmas tree or the poem could be symbolic to represent something else. …show more content…
These non traditional structures include different sentence lengths, spacing, punctuation and length and shape. The reason the author uses this type of structure is to clue the reader into how the character is feeling, it can also add emphasis. The format also helps to separate different ideas and parts of the poem. In the section of the poem
“little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower” Cummings is describing the christmas tree he has found. He keeps describing as little, this is an example of adding emphasis. He also compares it to a flower in the last line, the reason it is separated into another line is because its a different idea than the previous lines. The author also uses imagery in this poem. The picture the reader may get in their head is of a christmas tree. When it is described as little, we imagine a smaller than normal tree. In the lines
“look the spangles that sleep all the year in a dark box dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine, the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy