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if everything happens that can't be done
by
E.E. Cummings
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if everything happens that can't be done
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Symbolism, Imagery, Wordplay
Nature
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if everything happens that can't be done Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay
There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.
Nature
"if everything happens that can't be done" might be about love, but it sure is crammed with nature. Hmm. Maybe those two things have something to do with each other. Again and again, things in this...
School
If there's anything that keeps kids away from nature, it's school. Throughout this poem, the speaker talks about books, and he mentions a teacher once. But for someone who's writing a poem, he does...
Oneness
We hear a lot about this whole "one" thing in this poem, but we never get an explanation of what it actually is. It's up to us to define "one," but to be fair, the speaker does give us some hints,...