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"Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"

Why we chose the song

Presentation by: Cassidy Burns, Joe Petit, and Maddie Keating

The Poem takes place at a beach so we decided to pick wave sounds. The waves give an effect that you are on the beach reading this poem

Theme

Paraphrase each stanza

The theme of this poem is your favorite places can bring you back to yourself.

"To find oneself means to go beyond all the good the bad and physical, and dig deeper." ~ E.E. Cummings

Reevaluating the title

Stanza 4

What does this quote mean to you?

Stanza 2

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

This poem is about 4 girls at the beach having fun and finding themselves. The girls find items that represent themselves.

Stanza 3

Paraphrase: She was chased by something scary. It ran sideways.

Paraphrase: Maggie found a shell and she forgot about the world for a minute.

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

The poem's structure

Paraphrase: Milly found a starfish and it has long droopy fingers.

Poetic Devices

Stanza 5

Languid: (adj.) drooping; weak

Each girl gets their own stanza and the last one is about all of the girls. The whole poem is a free verse

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world as large as alone

Stanza 1

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

Paraphrase: May found a smooth rock. It was small and all alone

Paraphase: The four girls went to the beach to play with each other and have fun.

Alliteration: "blowing bubbles" "five fingers"

Imagery: "raced sideways"

Simile: "as small as a world and as large as alone"

Personfication: "maggie discovered a shell that sang"

Tone: happy and cheerful

Mood: summery and exciting

Diction: the words he chose were about the sea. The poem takes place at the beach so the words he chose fit in

Rhyme Scheme: A,A,B,C,D,D,E,C,F,F,G,G

Identify the speaker

Stanza 6

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea

All the girls take turns telling their story. The girls are cheerful throughout the poem

Paraphrase

Paraphrase: Even if we lose ourselves, there is always a place to bring us back

The girls go to the beach and lose themselves. All the girls find items that represent their personality

About E.E. Cummings

  • He graduated from Harvard
  • Served in WWI and was imprisoned
  • He didn't care about the grammar rules(spelling and punctuation)
  • He wrote one poem each day from the time he was eight to twenty two.
  • His full name is Edward Estlin Cummings
  • He died on September 3 from of cerebral hemorrhage ( bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain)

Our Prediction

Before we read the poem, from the title we thought it would be about three friends(girls) hanging out in May and just having fun playing and running around.

Picture of E.E Cummings

"maggie and milly and molly and may"

Write on your paper:

Why do you think he didn't care about the grammar rules?

It is an opinion. There are no right or wrong answers.

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach [to play one day]

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose [like a you or a me]

it's always ourselves we find in the sea

"maggie and milly and molly and may"

E.E. Cummings

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