“l(a”.
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
Share your thoughts on Cumming’s poem with us.
Do you think this is poetry?
What words could you see?
Do you like/dislike the poem and if so why?
“l(a”.
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
Share your thoughts on Cumming’s poem with us.
Do you think this is poetry?
What words could you see?
Do you like/dislike the poem and if so why?
I really liked the poem because it is really smart and also quite fun because you have to find out what it says.
This is my poem
(a)wa
i (br)
t (a)
(nc)in
g (ho)
(n) to
gr (a)
(tr) ow
(e) le
af es
(e)
Hello Blertina
I really like how you structured and wrote your poem out.
from Ali
Your poem is very interesting and I love your use of brackets. It took me a while to understand it but then I realised that you say the brackets first. I only spottted one mistake but your enthusiasm makes up for it.
Hello Blertina
i really like your poem, its well produced and its just like EE Cummings. I think you had used enjambment well and that it was quite complexed.
well done!!
from Zara
Hi Zara,
This is very helpful feedback. Your very clear and identify what you like about the poem.
Thank you for taking the time to help others.
Hello Blertina
I enjoyed reading you poem I thought it was quite complexed also it was just like EE Cummings asin i think you used the enjament really well and i also think it really ment something it sounded quiet deep.
Fabulous, Well done !!!!
Naomi
Hi I’m Eren and I am a year 6. I really liked the way you used your brackets. I liked the way you set up you writing. I only spotted one spelling mistake but the rest is brilliant.
Eren Mersin
Hanover Primary School
Hi Blertina,
Like everyone below, I enjoyed your poem.
The brackets means we see the image in two snapshots. We see the leaves falling first and then we see more of the picture as we see the branch.
It’s a very clever poem. Keep up the good work.
I like this poem because it is artistic and smart. Very clever keep it up!
Hi Blertina your poem is very different from others and that is good you made the poem your own.
Hello Blertina i like your poem.
duncombe
hey blertina I found your poem very interesting and it took quiet long for me to figure it out but that is a good thing because it was fun.
Hello Blerrtina
I thought that your poem was really interesting. It was just like having to solve a puzzle.
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
I enjoyed doing the EE Comings poem, and figuring it out in different ways. I also enjoyed it when we were doing our own poems like EE Comings and making sure they work. When I first saw the poem in a column it didn’t know what it was and how it worked.
Sophia Sergides
Grafton Primary School
Hi Sophia,
I’m glad you enjoyed the poem. I hope you like the next one too.
Hi Micheal I love the way you set up the poetry competition
Arsenal wins the Fa cup
(Chelsea are crying)
Ar e
s
na
l
w
ins
th
e
fa cu
p(Ch
el s
ea
ar
e cr
ing)y.
Hi Jamie,
I’m very pleased you’re enjoying the course and I hope you have some interesting conversations around poetry in your class.
Hi Sophia
I enjoyed the poem too,at first it looked quiet funny. When I noticed it was actually a whole sentence I thought it was amazing how EE Cummings was playing with the words.
I agree with you, when I first saw the poem I was very bewildered
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
I really liked how EE Cummings produced his poems.He was very sneaky using his poems as a puzzle.This is my poem using the same strucature:
The en
danger
ed wh
ale
(who wa
s splash
ing ab
out)
squir (water) ted.
Thank you for reading my poem i hope you enjoyed it reply if you think you’ve worked it out.
Zara
Well done I enjoy it however I did not get it at first but once I worked it out I enjoyed it so much keep up the good work.
Naomi
i really like your poem because you put the water part in brackets when it should of been in no brackets and i really liked that part because you kinda changed the rules but stuck with the theme of E.E Cummings
Lattina Tivy
Grafton Primary School
E.E Cummings poems are just like puzzles
Hi Ali I agree with your statement
So do i Ali
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
There are so many great poems its really fun reading them.
I took a simple kids story and made a small poem.
C(a)
ow(sh
am)eats
gr(ed)ass
(brakets first)
it is very intresting
Does anyone know what type of writing the poems are written in I think it’s called syntax.
Hi Callum,
Syntax is another word for how words are arranged in a sentence.
ther
e
wa
s
lo
t’s
of
col
ers
i
n
th
e
flow
er
po
et
I like it because it is set out weird so it is hard for me
HI Tommy,
I think it’s very good that you find something difficult enjoyable.
My Cumming’s poem
Te
ddy
(C
ut
e
an
d
fu
rr
y)
be
ars
duncombe
HI Demi,
Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
Could you explain why you decided to structure your poem this way?
i think ee cummings poem is really good and the way he uses his wrightingis outstanding
smell
(rose)
ing
a
(a bee)
(landed on)
(me)
duncombe
Hi Terence,
Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
I like the way you delay the subject of the poem and the way we have to read many of a words a second time due to your structure. The rhyme at the end makes it seem complete.
A promising poem.
good work Terence
duncombe
micro
phones
(in)
(the)
(air)
dancing
happ
ily
Hi Stacey,
Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
It like the way you used “dancing” as the poem seems to build to this point and it contrasts with the way you’ve split “microphones” and “happily”.
fire one
flie light
(in)
(the)
(moves)
(moonlight)
Hi Maya,
I enjoyed reading your poem.
It’s mysterious and I like the sound of the words like the “oo” in the last two words.
thank you
A
bird
was
fly
ing
in
the
sky
Duncombe
Hi Sophie,
Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
Why did you chose to split the word “flying” over two lines?
THE SLEEPING POEM
ar
yo
e
u
sti
a
ll
( poppy)
Duncombe primary school
Hi Gonul,
Thank you for sharing your poem with us.
Is the poem speaking to Poppy? Is Poppy a person or a flower?
A flower grows
[Summers here]
A
Flo
[su
Mm
E
Rs
Her
E]
We
R
Gro
Ws
HI Deniz,
I liked your poem. The brackets in the middle explain why the flowers growing but also the delay it creates seems to reflect the growth as does the long stretched poem.
(B)
(ird)
(s)
(an)
(1)
(FY)
(fas)
(t)
Hi Johnathen,
Thank you for sharing your poem.
I’ve noticed you used brackets on every line. Why did you decide to do this?
My friend isgot my beutiful bag
My
fr[best]
iend
is
got
my
be
utif
ul
bag.
HI Johan,
Your poem left me with a question: Did the speaker give the bag to the best friend or did they take it?
I really liked your poem it was very intresting to find out. yasmin in Rotherfield primary school
They are all really interesting poems and some of them at first I couldn’t figure out.
Here I made one myself.
Do (com) n’t
bel (eon) azy
(co) a (meon)
ndb (hur) e
(ryup) fi (an)
tand (dru)
fu (n) n
Your poem was a very good example of one of E.E.Cunnings magnificent puzzles
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
I liked the poem because it was very intresting and fun to work out as a class.
(th)y
ou(in)
(s)el
(t)ru
(ra)t
(sta)o
ll(e)ter
(rts)l
(o)w
(a)sh
(dri)
(p)n
from Holly Fay
Grafton Primary School
Ha and it rhymes Sophia. Well done again – you are a great contributer I must say! Also well done Blertina (sorry I’m only just catching up with all this) I thought your poem was splendid. I love the idea of those branches waiting for the leaves to grow and it captured the anticipated movement – brilliant! Also well done for being the first one on here.
I also liked all the other contributions and comments – well done one and all!
EE Cummings is a really good poet. he is really inspiring and he writes very interesting poems which require you to figure them out. This is the poem that i tried to write myself…
tog (o) ether
pu (wh) move
ll (th) ment
w (en) e
th
o (bo) u
r (ens) f
d (e) e
s (op) o
yo (k) th
I agree with you Cansu. E.E. Cummings is a very good poet. He is also very inspiring.
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
I really like E.E.Cumming’s poem because it’s like solving a problem but in english. This was the first time I saw a poem like that.
this a poem I made up:
L(ca
ny
ou
fi
n
d
me)
ost
Ahura Farhadi
Grafton primary School
I think all your poems are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done everybody 🙂 🙂
Blertina Grafton
I really liked the poem because it takes a while to understand which makes it a sort of a puzzle. This is my poem.
Bayern won the treble
(borussia are mad and sad)
ba
ye
rn
ar
e
cel
brat
in
(borus
sia
ar
e
acc
eler
at
ing)g.
i really enjoyed the poem because you had to work it out and find words
here is my poem
yo(ever)u
(y)will(tim)
(e)fi(y)(ou)
zz(mel)(t)wi
th(a mars)(h)
(mal)(low)exci
ement
i will give you a clue it is something to do with movement
lattina
I really liked the poem by E.E Cummings because its really interesting to present a poem in the way that Cummings did and it was really fun working out what it said here is my poem.
(A)wa
it(bo)
(ok)ing
fo(o)
(n)r
so(a)
(sh)me
one(elf)
I LIKED THAT POEM BECAUSE IT WAS DIFFICULT TO FIND OUT WITH THE BRACKET BUT WE WORKED TOGETHER TO FIND OUT. IT WAS FUN AND INTELLIGENT.
TH(AN)
E(D)
CAT(IT)
SCRACHE (REALL)
D(Y)
ME(HURTE)
ON(D)
THE(ME)
BA(SO)
CK(MUCH)
Monasar Abdalla
Grafton primary school
hi Monasar
I realy liked your poem about how the cat scratched you on the back.
i really injoy doing this poem. this is my poem
st[lik]op
[e]mov
ing[a]
in
yo
ur
[sau]
sle[sage]
ep
stop moving in your sleep.
like a sausage.
Maisha
I love poems they always get me into thinking especially this one . Not forgetting the structure of the poem ,the way he used brackets got me thinking for a while but eventually i got it
Here is one of mine that was similar to E.e cummings
slo
(die)
ly
(ing)a
pet
(help)falls
(lisly)
I thought that Basmala poet is really good and she made it interseting.
basmalas poem was very intersting and quite sad by very intersting
was your poem saying
a pet fall (that part was not in brackets)
dying helplisy that part is in brackets
Lattina Tivy Nerissa
Grafton Primary
this poem is really interesting i like how he layed it out and how he thought about writing it like that.i really enjoyed it.
HERE IS MY POEM
(a) wa
it (bo)
(x) ing
fo (on)
(a) r
so (sh)
(elf) me
one
By Baris Grafton Primary School
hey everyone awesome poems and feed back I’ve also made a poem
till
(th
etr
eei
s)ss
and ilance
lance Kayla Grafton Primary School
sorry everyone awesome poems and feed back i just changed a thew things
till
(th
etr
eei
s)ss
and ilance
Kayla Grafton Primary School
I didn’t like it because it was to confusing and I didn’t see the point of t and the final result i can see is A leaf falls loneliness. It doesn’t sound like a poem and i doen’t find it very interesting.
i realy liked this poem and look at this
i(th
is
po
em
i
s c
ool)
ike
p
oems
wh
y dos
entthe
bir
d mov
e
i
s she
aw
acke
I think Cumming’s poem is a clever little way of writing a poem. this is the one I made up.
(The
se
a
mov
e
quiet
ly)
Canthi
s beemov
e(i)
(is)
(itdead)
I found EEcummings poem very intersting and queit hard for me to figure out what it meening of the poem.
(A )
stone
bee
in
a
s
big
as
alone
I really liked this poem to beacause it was original and wasn’t boring
I think its really interesting and clever.
Gillespie
I like this poem because how its structured and the letters.
Gillespie primary school
I saw all the poem it was fantastic and I enjoyed all the poem they have created
(a)
(man)so
ing(won)
(the)
a(lot)
(ter)do
to(y)
is(by)
fo(gue)
(ssing)
(th)
hg(enu)hey
(mbe)
(rs)ge
I really like that poem specially the layout/shape because it shows what a leaf feels when it falls down. I also find it very interesting that a writer wrote a sentence in a strange way that i think no one ever used.
I think this is a poem but he has just set it out in an unusual way, probably to make the reader wonder.
I recognised ‘a leaf falls’ and loneliness.
I liked it because you have to really think about it to understand it. The image of the single leaf in my head made me think of loneliness.
Gillespie School
I really like your poem
Elif-sue
Pakeman primary school red class
your poem is great
Elif-sue
Pakeman primary school red class
I found the poem very interesting the way it was set out was much more different to normal poems. Ialso liked the use of brackets.
Ruqayyah Rahman
Grafton Primary School
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so
li
ke
th
e l
ayou
t)re
al
ly
like
thi
s
po
em
hope
you
do
to
it’s still really intresting.
Sarah Yerbury School