E.E. Cummings
\"anyone lived in a pretty how town\"
I first read this poem and I thought of love, two people in love. Anyone and no one
are in love and that is what matters to them, to be in love with each other and with life. It involves the day, the night, and how the weather changes. The seasons revolve and the children grow up to become adults. As I read the poem I realized there were three sections to it. Which consist of anyone and no one
, \"women and men\" in line four, and the children. The first stanza is strange the first time you read it. You do not understand \"anyone\" is a person and not just anyone. I believe that line six is referring to all of the adults in the town, Cummings does not want us to think of the town people as separate people but as a whole group undistinguishable from on another. This is told in line five where it states \"little and small\", he is grouping them in very close together. The children are separated into there own group. As......
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