In Just Ee Cummings Analysis

In E.E. Cummings’s unrhymed poem, “[in Just-],” Cummings emphasis on the importance of the start of spring, children, and innocence-filled world. In addition, Cummings symbolizes spring to youthful children and their innocence throughout the whole poem, because spring is the season after the chilly and empty atmosphere of the outside during winter. Spring is often visualized as a colorful, warm, and bright season, where children are playing from “running from marbles and piracies” to ‘hopscotch and jump rope.” Ultimately, Cummings conveys the message of the theme of children or the younger ones out on a spring day, playing innocently and freely. Cummings repeated an imagery of “the little lame balloonman,” who serves as the center focus for
the children’s happiness and celebration. Furthermore, a man with balloon is most always the best way to lure children. Something that I’ve noticed in the poem is line 20-21, where it stated, “goat-footed balloonMan”, which reminds me of the God of Nature, Pan, from Greek Mythology or from Percy Jackson series. My all time favorite series, book 4, from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians called the “Battle of the Labyrinth,” had a mini part in the plotline where Grover Underwood the Satyr had a mission to find the missing God of Nature. Grover Underwood described the nature as dreary and lonely; however, it all changed when he found Pan and released the spirit into the nature to restore. I thought of this connection between winter and spring as “nature's way of saying let’s party!” (Quote by Robin Williams) This exactly what Cummings wants his audience to visualize in their heads: Kids joyfully playing at a park or anywhere outside.