MONDAY TRAVELS: A BEAUTY A DAY by E.E. Cummings

Happy Monday friends! Welcome to another edition of Monday Travels

So today we are in UNITED STATES and we will explore:


A BEAUTY A DAY

Let's meet E.E. Cummings:

Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. In 1952, his alma mater, Harvard University, awarded Cummings an honorary seat as a guest professor. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he gave in 1952 and 1955 were later collected as i: six nonlectures. Cummings spent the last decade of his life traveling, fulfilling speaking engagements, and spending time at his summer home, Joy Farm, in Silver Lake, New Hampshire.

Poem:

A pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)
o yes to flower
until so blithe
a doer a wooer
some limber and lithe
some very fine mower
a tall;tall
some jerry so very
(and nellie and fan)
some handsomest harry
(and sally and nan
they tremble and cower
so pale:pale)
for betty was born
to never say nay
but lucy could learn
and lily could pray
and fewer were shyer
than doll. doll

Thoughts:

I love how there are no rules of grammar or language in poetry!
E.E. Cummings was the master of breaking every standard!
This poem is very beautiful and so meaningful and so strange, yet capturing.
Ah to find more jems as this!


See you Next Monday!