Welcome to the 187th Virtual Poetry Circle!
Remember, this is just for fun and is not meant to be stressful.
Keep in mind what Molly Peacock’s books suggested. Look at a line, a stanza, sentences, and images; describe what you like or don’t like; and offer an opinion. If you missed my review of her book, check it out here.
Also, sign up for the 2013 Dive Into Poetry Challenge because its simple; you only need to read 1 book of poetry. Please visit the stops on the 2012 National Poetry Month Blog Tour.
Today’s poem is from E.E. Cummings:
Spring is like a perhaps hand
III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything.
What do you think?
Thanks for sharing an E.E. Cummings poem I hadn’t read before.
I have a question for this one. Why does E.E. Cummings use a lot of parentheses in his poems?
I don’t always get poetry but this one speaks to me; maybe because I’m yearning for spring so much.
I really like this one. I have a hard time understanding ee cummings’s syntax a lot of the time, but for some reason this one is more clear to me.