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"....It's Always ourselves we find in the sea"

 
 
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Reply Wed 29 Jan, 2003 02:51 pm
This poem by e.e.cummings was the very first poem that I posted for Craven to include in the Realm. I still love it and feel that we all fit into one of the characterizations so simply but impressively designed. Are you a Maggie or a Millie or a Mollie or a May?

a link to the poem:

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/maggie.shtml
 
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Reply Wed 29 Jan, 2003 11:25 pm
May definitely a May tons of great beach rocks in this apartment. But it was a hard choice I love the sound of the sea in shells.
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Reply Thu 30 Jan, 2003 05:19 am
Joanne, I really don't think that e.e. meant that poem to be taken literally.
I see the children as symbolic of personality types.

I tend to be a Molly, because strange and new things often cause me to be apprehensive. If reason doesn't work, then I run.

You ought to read Cummings, "Baloon Man" sometimes. WOW!
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