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Thursday, September 27, 2012

a poem for fall by e.e. cummings...

and to accompany The Perks of Being a Wallflower that my undergraduates discussed yesterday.


l(a

l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness

--e.e.cummings 


One of my students in Connecticut wrote extensively on loneliness and how it is a common theme in young adult literature and it reminded me of e.e. cummings and his poem "l(a)". The poem has always been a piece of art for me - a masterpiece (like Perks) and like Autumn, its leaves, and the changing of seasons.



I don't have much else to write...just that.

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