> Heh, you're in luck. This is from a research paper I did last year... Pardon the bad formatting; this was directly copied and pasted.
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> -- codeman"guess there *is* an advantage to archiving all these papers on zip disks"38
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> "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is one of Cummings' best known and most admired poems [snip!]

Hmmmmmm. Yes... thanks to your very helpful explanation codeman, I can begin to see the structure: a busy little rural community and the simple story of two lovers revolving therein. But even with knowing what to look for, I still had to read the poem 8 or 9 times before I "got it"... and I have trouble seeing how this could be one of the poet's "most admired" works. The technical cleverness of it is admirable, but did I actually enjoy reading it? Erm.

Anyway, one phrase that still sticks in my mind is:

/ / / / (with up so floating many bells down)

That's a very catchy image. Do you or anyone have any idea what it means!?

Wolfspirit