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Red Balloon, by Paul Klee
E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

[in Just-]

in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
 
whistles          far          and wee
 
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
 
when the world is puddle-wonderful
 
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far          and             wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
 
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
 
it's
spring
and
 
        the
 
                 goat-footed
 
balloonMan          whistles
far
and
wee

(1923)

#Americans #Modernism #FreeVerse

Analysis
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Xaipe: 3

purer than purest pure whisper of a whisper so(big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no
No Thanks, 46

swi( across! gold’s rouNdly )ftblac k1(ness)y
Xaipe: 24

one day a nigger caught in his hand a little star no bigger than not to understand “i’ll never let you go
If Learned Darkness From Our Searched World

if learned darkness from our searc… should wrest the rare unwisdom of… and if thy hands flowers of silenc… upon a wish,to rapture should surp… my soul slowly which on thy beauty…
The sun inside a heart made with hands
love is more thicker than forget

love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly
 9
Stinging

stinging gold swarms upon the spires silver            chants the litanies the
Spring is like a perhaps hand

III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window, into which people look(w…
 1
Xaipe: 23

three wealthy sisters swore they’d… Soul was(i understand) seduced by Life;whose brother marr… now Mrs Death. Poor Mind
I Will Wade Out

I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burn… I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive
Yours Is the Music for No Instrument

yours is the music for no instrume… yours the preposterous colour unbe… —mine the unbought contemptuous in… till this our felsh merely shall b… by speaking flower
 1
Buffalo Bill ’s

Buffalo Bill ’s defunct           who used to           ride a watersmooth-silve… …
The Moon Is Hiding In

the moon is hiding in her hair. The lily of heaven
 1
A Connotation of Infinity

a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of… when souls which have forgot frivo… in lowliness,noting the fatal flig… of worlds whereto this earth’s a h…
The Wind Is a Lady With

the wind is a Lady with bright slender eyes(who moves)at sunset and who—touches—the hills without any reason
In Just-

in Just- spring       when the world is mud… luscious the little lame baloonman whistles       far       and wee



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