I'm in a poetry class for school and we were asked to select a poem for a poetry reading. I'm somewhat new to poems, but then read grasshoppers by e.e. cummings, and fell in love with it. I was wondering what everyone else's interpretation of the poem was.



** For those of you looking at this with a kind of face like I did when I first saw it, it's read as "grasshopper, who, as we look, now upgathering into himself, leaps. arriving to become, rearrangingly, a grasshopper" so I believe.

However, I still have yet to understand where the himself comes from, and where the The went. Anyone know?

But back to interpretation... I think it's basically saying that a an object (for example a grasshopper) will always remain that object, and no matter how you change it (like spelling it different) it's still that same object as it was before. It will still obtain the same qualities, features, etc.

Am I terribly off? Like I said, somewhat new to this.

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Moved to School.

The poem is arranged that way to show how a grasshopper moves. I think the poem talks about how in motion, the grasshopper is different but it turns back to its old self once it reached its destination. Kind of like how people somewhat change during a difficult/special time, but turn back to their old self once everything is settled down again.