Summary Of Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town
Dear, E.E. Cummings, I have unraveled your poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. I really enjoyed the uniqueness of the puzzle you created. The narrator of the story tells the narrative as if they don’t care, moreover, the story itself is about a lot of people not caring. The only people who act out are Anymore and Noone, they fall in love and worry about no one but themselves, as the disregardful outside world continues to repeat the cycle of life and death by no means. Mr. Cummings, I appreciate your use of sound, rhyme scheme, and discrete foreshadowing, it pulls readers in and keeps them reading until the very end, readers, like myself, tend to really enjoy poems with a hidden deeper meaning to them. The way you write the slant rhyme scheme for this poem is as almost as you didn’t want the reader to feel complete. You rhymed a couple lines, then talk about some nonsense that the reader had to
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They all symbolize time moving by with nature. This is giving the readers a theme, nature always has to do with the cycle of life, so when repeated, it is as time moves on people live and die, which brings us to another possible theme of love/life/death, The phrase “with up so floating many bells down” (2, 24) is repeated twice. At first it is difficult to figure out what “bells” mean, later I figured out that they represent Anyone and Noone’s wedding and, also later their funerals. They found love and then they both died. The other people in the town went on to live their life that never goes anywhere, they do not remember Anyone or Noone, because nothing matters to them. There is some foreshadowing that shows this. “only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down” (22-24) the children who once remembered Anyone, they have now forgotten him and now he is dead, as if never to have
They all symbolize time moving by with nature. This is giving the readers a theme, nature always has to do with the cycle of life, so when repeated, it is as time moves on people live and die, which brings us to another possible theme of love/life/death, The phrase “with up so floating many bells down” (2, 24) is repeated twice. At first it is difficult to figure out what “bells” mean, later I figured out that they represent Anyone and Noone’s wedding and, also later their funerals. They found love and then they both died. The other people in the town went on to live their life that never goes anywhere, they do not remember Anyone or Noone, because nothing matters to them. There is some foreshadowing that shows this. “only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down” (22-24) the children who once remembered Anyone, they have now forgotten him and now he is dead, as if never to have