Molly And May

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Maggie And Milly And Molly And May Analylsis The poem “Maggie And Milly And Molly and May” by E.E. Cummings is an interesting poem about Maggie, Milly, Molly, and May going to the beach. First, this poem was difficult to analyze due to that fact that “Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression” (poets.org). This made the poem epically difficult to analyze, but there is still a theme present. In this poem, E.E. Cummings expressed that everyone is unique. The theme of how you act at the beach reflects your personality in “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May” is established through its ending, its plot, and its symbols. In “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May”, the theme of how you act at the beach reflects your personality is established through its ending. The ending summed up the poem, and most blatantly showed the theme. The ending stated, “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” (Cummings 12). This ending shows that at the beach, also known as the sea, we find ourselves. We …show more content…

Throughout the poem, there were statements that showed how at the beach you find different things that make you unique. For example, “Maggie discovered a shell that sang” (Cummings 3), “Millie befriended a stranded star” (Cummings 5), “Molly was chased by a horrible thing” (Cummings 7), and “May came home with a smooth round stone” (Cummings 9). These points in the plot show how everyone at the beach found something different. Because everyone found something different, everyone is unique. Therefore, the theme of how you act at the beach reflects your personality is established through the plot, which shows how finding different things at the beach makes you

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