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The image points to loss, passing time, and the stripping away of everything that once felt full. It can be read as a meditation on ageing, when the speaker sees the season in the world and recognises it in the self. It lands quietly in a moment of autumnal reflection, when change feels less like an event and more like a long familiarity.
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Books by e. e. cummings
The Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
1994
73 Poems
2002
100 selected poems
1954
95 poems
1958