Loneliness by E. E. Cummings (When there is no one beside you…)
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From 1911 to 1916 E. E. Cummings attended Harvard, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1915 and a Master's degree for English and Classical Studies in 1916. During his lifetime, he published more than 900 poems, along with two novels, several plays and essays, as well as numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings. Cummings' poetry often deals with themes of love and nature, as well as the relationship of the individual to the masses and to the world. This poem loneliness do not involve any typographical or punctuational innovations at all, but purely syntactic ones. Syntatic is way of arranging individual words into larger phrases and sentences. E. E. Cummings had a very great life in poetry and now we can see one of his works.Loneliness, this is a very complicated poem to understand. The poetic way of writing is very complex to understand. Loneliness, solitude, isolation, lonesomeness, seclusion or what ever you want to call it, this gives out the same feeling, feeling alone or having or causing a feeling of being alone and sad, a having no one or nothing else around. As what I have seen in analyzing the poem, I found a phrase or something like a code. 1 (a leaf falls) oneliness, a leaf falls inside loneliness. A leaf falls when it is not attached to the stem or when it had nothing to hold it. I can associate it to the feeling of a person when they alone, it is as if they just want to fall. When you are alone, you don’t have anyone to hold on to and that is why you fall. A leaf also falls during the season of fall. Leaves fall and the trees die. The season of fall for me symbolizes failure or breakdown. We usually feel failure when we are alone. When there is no one beside you, the feeling of emptiness then encloses your heart.

Loneliness is a very hard feeling to surpass. It would take a great strength for you to be able to conquer this feeling of loneliness especially because you have no one beside you. For me, loneliness is the feeling of being unloved. When you are unloved, you won’t be able to do great things. You won’t be able to show to the world, who you really are and what you really feel.

Each of us needs someone to be with us for the rest of our lives. No man is an island and we need others to carry on. Needing someone is what a normal person feels. When we are alone we might not be able to go through the dark roads of life. We need someone to hold on when we can’t go on anymore and someone who will catch us when we fall.