This poem has haunted me since first encountering ee cummings. Vince Gotera provides an elegant and simple deconstruction via YouTube on his blog post “ee cummings l(a) deconstructed”:
If you’re like me, after reading cummings, you’ll perceive magic every time a leaf falls.
…What cummings uncovers for us here is how many times the number one (as suggested by the letter l) appears in the word loneliness: four times. And of course there’s also the letter l/number one in the word leaf…
Check out Gotera’s post here.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses 