HI,

This is ee cummins poem. I would like to understand this better. very difficult, dont have to crack the head just tell ur opinion

thanks stem


e.e. cummings - Snow

SNOW

cru
is
ingw Hi
sperf
ul
lydesc

BYS FLUTTERFULLY IF

(endbegi ndesignb ecend)tang
lesp
ang
le
s
ofC omego

CRINGE WITHS

lilt(
-ing-
lyful
of)!
(s
r

BIRDS BECAUSE AGAINS

emarkable
s)h?
y&a;
(from n
o(into whe)re f
ind)
nd
ArE

GLIB SCARCELYEST AMONGS FLOWERING

He uses formatting to differently describe a scene with falling snow and birds. As usual, he changes verbs to nouns, and other such wordplay to add a dreamlike effect to his words.


Snow

BYS FLUTTERFULLY IF [flutters by fully?]

cruising whisper fully descend begin design becend [typo - descend?]
tangle spangles of come go

CRINGE WITHS [?]

liltingly ful[l] of

BIRDS BECAUSE AGAINS [?]

remarkable shy [and?] from no(into whe)re find)nd ArE
[from nowhere into find and are?]

GLIB SCARCELYEST AMONGS FLOWERING
[among flowerings scarcely glib?]



Is that any help? More confusing yet maybe?

Hi Huge clary,


thanks for this beautiful explanation. The poem is now understood by me very well. I had not thought anyone will come with such detalied explantion. I appreciate ur effort. I saw two posts ,but i saw only urs .
cheers
stem