now what were motionless move

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videonerd250

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First off, I'd noramlly feel really bad coming to an internet forum for homework advice, but I'm poetically challenged and my 210 English teacher thought it would be funny to have us analyze an EE Cummings poem for our final after less than a week of discussing poetry and one assignment analyzing a poem with the intended meaning on the next page.
But I digress...we're supposed to analyze the poem "now what were motionless move" and I have no clue what it means. I can BS a paper pretty well, but I have no clue where to start with this. So if you're good at analyzing poetry, I don't need a page of stuff, just what you think it's about.
Thanks for any help you all can give.

now what were motionless move(exists no


now what were motionless move(exists no

miracle mightier than this:to feel)
poor worlds must merely do,which then are done;
and whose last doing shall not quite undo
such first amazement as a leaf-here's one

more than each creature new(except your fear
to whom i give this little parasol,
so she may above people walk in the air
with almost breathing me)-look up:and we'll

(for what were less than dead)dance,i and you;
high(are become more than alive)above
anybody and fate and even Our
whisper it Selves but don't look down and to

-morrow and yesterday and everything except love

ee cummings
 

fedpayne

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Well, I don't like it, but you can talk about enjamberment being used to convey a sense of movement in the structure.

In terms of what it's about? Guh, whaddya want me to say, it's about a guy waiting for a train. It's metaphysical.