Seasons
At several points in this poem, Cummings mentions the four seasons almost out of nowhere. In line 3, for example, he breaks from his story about "anyone" to simply say, "spring summer autumn winter...
Weird Syntax
No one ever accused E.E. Cummings of being too simple in the way he positions words. From the first line of this poem, we know we're not in for an easy read. The phrase "anyone lived in a pretty ho...
Bells
It's not easy to tell at first what E.E. Cummings is doing with all the bells in this poem. For starters, his second line states: "(with up so floating many bells down)" (2). We can't really tell w...