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11 Responses to “Holy Week: Monday”

1. MCQ Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 5:39 pm

   I love that Kristine! And I also love that you didn’t write Cummings’ name in lower case. This is a poem I have never seen before. Thank you.
2. Costanza Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 5:53 pm

   Thanks Kristine. And just in case anyone is wondering about E.E. Cummings and the issue of capitalization raised by MCQ, check this out:
   http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
3. Kevin Barney Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 6:02 pm

   That whole capitalization thing was interesting; I learned something from that.

   (Nice installment in your series, Kristine.)
4. Costanza Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   Kevin,
   All I have to do is provide about 1,000 more moments of learning for you and we will almost be equal!
5. kris Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 6:38 pm

   Thank you Kristine, Cummings is one of my favourite poets.
6. Seraphine Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 10:07 pm

   I haven’t ever read this cummings poem. Thanks!
7. Eve Says:
   April 2, 2007 at 11:18 pm

   Thanks, Kristine. That poem is new to me as well (and we can never have too many poems on the Bloggernacle).
8. Norbert Says:
   April 3, 2007 at 6:25 am

   Great. I have a (smarmy Christian) student doing his extended essay on Christian poetry of the twentieth century. I printed this off and dropped it in his lap. He looked confused, reread it, looked at me … I just smiled. God bless poetry.
9. johnson Says:
   April 25, 2007 at 12:32 pm

   OK I HAVE A QUESTION…

   WHAT THE HECK IS THIS POEM TALKING BOUT? IVE BEEN TRYING TO ANALYZE THIS FOR TH ELONGEST TIME….HELPPPPP I DONT UNDERSTAND. IS THER A MEANING FOR THE )OR THE (?
10. Kristine Says:
    April 25, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    johnson, I don’t think I’d try to parse any meaning into the parentheses–Cummings liked to play with punctuation. This particular poem could probably be written out as a single long sentence, and interpretable in a fairly straightforward way…
11. N Says:
    June 5, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    This will, perhaps unfortunately (perhaps not =p ) be my only post, but I just want to respond to Johnson and Kristine by saying that I think the parentheses are definitely meaningful… think of what a parenthetical expression is — think of how we use parentheses and what they mean syntactically. In inverting them, then, cummings makes an implicit valuation of the experience described in the poem…

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