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mishap13
(10/28/2009 10:48:00 PM) |
I think the first character is deliberately ambiguous. If you look at most manual typewriters, there is no 1 key because you simply used the lowercase L. the effect is to split up the word loneliness thus:
1
one
1
iness
– thereby underscoring the solitude of the falling leaf.
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Thurein Linn
(6/8/2008 1:09:00 AM) |
this is my favourite poem.whenever i read it i feels the death and loneliness of human beings and line spacing make the picture of a fallen leaf.when i first read it i remember O'Henry's The last leaf.
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L. Graykin
(11/13/2006 3:51:00 PM) |
'is this poem 1(a or l(a? ive seen both...'
It's a lower case 'L.' Try writing it out without line breaks, and remove the parenthetical clause, and you'll see...
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Michael Romero
(10/11/2006 1:56:00 AM) |
This is my favorite cummings poem and one of my all time favorites overall. I love the simplicity of it and I love how you can almost see the leaf falling in the formation of the words, with the leaf lying down to rest in 'iness'. Beautiful.
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