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What Is The Theme Of The Poem I 'A' By E Cummings

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“I)a” Upon finding this poem by e e cummings, I thought something had glitched out part of the words, but looking closer there was a purpose within each line of the poem. The poem reads “I(a le af fa ll s) one l iness” which when pieced together is “ a leaf falls” inside the word “loneliness”. Each time I look at this poem I find something new and relatable to it. Beginning to break down the poem, it is written in a subtle yet forceful manner. The poem is about being alone, or the lack of someone there for you at all and this is expressed in many ways. The word loneliness is spelled out in the poem, but also the word “one” within “loneliness” is purposely written by itself. Also, if you look at the overall shape of the poem, you will notice it falls into the shape of the subscript 1, which is the motif of this poem. While you read the poem though, the shape dissipates as you try to piece together all the flowing words, that cascade down the page like a falling …show more content…

The words floating down the page like a fallen leaf, while the broken up syntax forces you to to read almost like you were watching a leaf descend from a tree, swaying one way and abruptly stopping and falling the other way, under it reaches the ground to rest, which in line 9 “ines” being the longest line in the poem, represents the point the leaf hits the ground. Tying back to the motif of 1, and while reading the poem, you lose its shape, you cannot see both the both, even though they are one, eluding to, you may not be by yourself but you may still feel “loneliness”, which is something I greatly relate to. It is difficult to not be lonely when you are not noticed as part of something as a whole, when you are noticed individually, everything seems fine, but when you are a part of something and looked over, like the way the poem makes the subscript 1 but is looked over while reading the poem, is a very lonely

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