Loneliness

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

-ee cummings

“Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than just the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected from, and alienated towards, other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact.”

-www.wikipedia.com

This was written by Edward Estlin Cummings also known as EE cummings. He is a writer and also a painter, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, served in World War 1 in France, then studied art at Paris. His writings attracted more interest than his paintings. Complete Poems appeared in 1968. He also wrote a travel diary, a morality play, Santa Claus (1946), and a collection of six ‘non-lectures’ delivered at Harvard entitled i (1953). His best-known prose work, The Enormous Room (1922), describes his wartime internment in France. He is also known for his very unique style in writing poems. I would like to thank www.biography.com, a source of this short biography of ee cummings.

You can’t hardly understand this poem he wrote above. You can't even say that it is a poem. Oh my God! how can I reach 500 words just writing my interpretation in this poem. The title of poem is loneliness. An intellectually challenged person can't understant this poem. Only people with the gift of wisdom can interpret this poem. Why loneliness?

Loneliness is the feeling that you can feel when you are alone. For example you are left in the house all alone and you have nothing to do, you feel lonely. I even feel lonely sometimes but not all the time. This is because I always have friends that I can talk to in school. When I am at home, I also have my cousins and my mother who I can chat with. Sometimes I imagine how miserable and how lonely my life would be without having friends.

Looking at the poem above, we can see that ee cummings used the number 1 as a substitute for the letter L. Why did he make this? This shows us that being alone or all by yourself makes you feel lonely. You can also read the phrase, a leaf falls down.

As what I understand in the poem, being alone makes you feel lonely.