Examining Cumming's Poetry Essay

As children see this world as safe and harm free, little do they know one in ten children will be sexually abused before the age of eighteen (Darkness to Light). Examining how children do not know how much their life is in danger, e. e. cummings, the author of in Just, leaves behind a secret meaning of what is actually being said in his poetry. Leaving the reader to depict what his poetry means, cummings uses typography, allusion, repetition of words, and tone to guide his audience to discover the deeper interpretations within his poetry. Examining Cumming’s poem, typography is an essential aspect of providing emphasis to certain sections. Looking at the children’s name, they are all scrunched together. The opposite is with whistle, far, and wee where they are all spread apart. In some ways, Cumming is providing emphasis on these sections. Based on phonetics, eddieandbill will be said naturally faster and whistle, far, and wee will be said slower.
Proceeding with lines 16 through 21, the audience might notice one of the most played childhood games – hopscotch. Usually, hopscotch follows a basic pattern of 1 square then 2 squares; however, this hopscotch pattern differs by following a 1 1 1 2 pattern suggesting the children are advanced and not basic. Previously stated in line 15, the children Eddie and Bill alongside with Betty and Isabel,
In contrast to this theory, the children are always returning to Pan and his panpipe just as the sheep and goats would return to him when he blew his horn. From an outside point of view, this might be seen as the children growing a year older every time the children return to him during springtime. The audience might notice this allusion in line 20 when it says the word “goat-footed.” Typically, this word is referred to satyrs because of their stature – consisting of half human and half