Poems By E.E.Cummings & Why We Like Them …

i love you much(most beautiful darling)

i love you much(most beautiful darling)

more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky

-sunlight and singing welcome your coming

although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
no one can quite begin to guess

(except my life)the true time of year-

and if what calls itself a world should have
the luck to hear such singing(or glimpse such
sunlight as will leap higher than high
through gayer than gayest someone’s heart at your each

nearness)everyone certainly would(my
most beautiful darling)believe in nothing but love

We like this poem because he is talking to a girl. A girl that obviously means more than life itself, to him. E.E Cummings is telling this girl that no matter how crappy the day or season is he will always feel happy and good because of her. This is a very romantic and loving poem that warms our heart.

the boys i mean are not refined

the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross on her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss

they speak whatever’s on their mind
they do whatever’s in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined
they shake the mountains when they dance

We like this poem because all of the other poems on the list that we read were all about love and loss, about seriousness, but when we read this poem it told the truth but in a very comical way. This poem made us laugh, in a comical and serious way which is a good balance.

it may not always be so; and i say

it may not always be so;and i say
that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch
another’s,and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart,as mine in time not far away;
if on another’s face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know,or such
great writhing words as,uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

if this should be,i say if this should be-
you of my heart,send me a little word;
that i may go unto him,and take his hands,
saying,Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

We like this poem because he is saying that if and when his love leaves him he wants her to tell him. He wants to know that his love is happy. He is saying that when she speaks the words he dreads he will go to the other man and wish him the ever happiness. He wants to be happy but as long as she is happy he is. We like this because instead of being mad and upset he applauds her happiness. We enjoy the fact that a man is able to be that strong to make a woman happy before himself.

2 little whos

2 little whos
(he and she)
under are this
wonderful tree

smiling stand
(all realms of where
and when beyond)
now and here

(far from a grown
-up i&you-
ful world of known)
who and who

(2 little ams
and over them this
aflame with dreams
incredible is)

I like this poem because it is small, concise and straight to the point, and yet still makes you think. At first when he said 2 little who’s, I thought of two little people out of the Grinch. After reading the whole poem it made me think about whether he is talking about two young people or maybe just two people that seem not to matter in life. I like this poem because it makes you think, which is exactly what poems should do, they should make you think about what the true meaning is.

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what I want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death

I like this poem because at first I didn’t undertsnad what it meant but after I took time to understand it, it is talking about a man who has died. This man “Buffalo Bill” was a cool guy, he rode a beautifull horse and was able to shoot pigeons like it was a way of life. This poem made me laugh at first then it made me think then it made me a little upset. This is not the same as a lot of other poems. It is not about love or heartbreak. It is about death but in a sort of comical way.