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**Frownland** · 10-11-2014, 12:26 AM

It's a testament to loneliness. The image of a leaf falling speaks for itself in that sense. The use of one, the stand-alone l (which looks like I or 1), iness ("I"-ness) and the shape of the poem too all attributes to that. The grouping of the lettering in pairs conveys a sense of longing to break the loneliness as well, and l(a suggests that there's a barrier between 1 and a(nother). Preciseness is great but I appreciate Cummings a lot more because of how much you can find in it. I don't think that it's strictly to be confusing since it adds so much more to the poem.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	It's a testament to loneliness. The image of a leaf falling speaks for itself in that sense. The use of one, the stand-alone l (which looks like I or 1), iness ("I"-ness) and the shape of the poem too all attributes to that. The grouping of the lettering in pairs conveys a sense of longing to break the loneliness as well, and l(a suggests that there's a barrier between 1 and a(nother). Preciseness is great but I appreciate Cummings a lot more because of how much you can find in it. I don't think that it's strictly to be confusing since it adds so much more to the poem. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x Last edited by Frownland; 10-11-2014 at 12:39 AM.