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For me, these poems express my fear of growing up so fast and being lost in society. I also like to be childish, which is described by not capitalizing the letters in maggie and millie and molly and may.

A Couplet Poem Analysis

by Antony Nguyen

Grow Up

by Antony Nguyen

"Grow up", he says, and stares at me with those cold dead eyes.

I fear those distasteful 'jokes' and sarcastic sighs.

"I'm never growing up," I say to myself, and let out a grin.

"But I'll have to grow up someday," I ponder as I stroke my chin.

Why do they see the world so dark?

Like the dull coat on a golden meadowlark.

Why does it have to be carved in stone?

The fate on which I can never hone.

THEMIC Analysis

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

it's always ourselves we find in the sea

Title: maggie and milly and molly and may

Heed the Story:

Four girls play at the beach, one finds a shell that has the "sound of the sea", the second finds a washed-up star, the third is chased by a crab or a "horrible thing that races sideways", and the fourth girl finds a stone that she admires. "Losing yourself like a you or a me" is either death, or modern technology taking over our lives.

Emotion: The emotion presented in this poem is really innocent, and has a deep meaning which is explained in the end.

Musical Language: The poem rhymed with near-rhymes and real rhymes in an ABAB scheme, and the use of simile with the rock that is "small as a world and large as alone"

Imagery: Descriptions of the things the girls discovered: "horrible creature that blew bubbles while chasing sideways", "small as a world"

Connect: I think this story means that it's easy to lose ourselves in our modern society, which is fast paced; but getting away from it all and finding out more about our real and natural world can help us find ourselves.

may came home with a smooth round stone

and as large as alone.

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways blowing bubbles:and

as small as a world

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

Couplet Poem:

'maggie and milly and molly and may'

by e.e cummings

Poem Analysis by Antony Nguyen

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