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Summary 'nobody loses all the time' by E.E Cummings in-depth IEB analysis

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Line by Line in-depth analysis of the IEB prescribed poem 'nobody loses all the time' by E.E Cummings. Colour-coded and extremely easy to follow to make your studying easier. The summary also includes an overview of the poem's biographical information, main message, tone, structure, and figurati...

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  • August 6, 2021
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  • 2021/2022
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  • nobody loses all the time
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‘ nobody loses all the time’ E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)



i had an uncle named

Sol who was a born failure and

nearly everybody said he should have gone

into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could

sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which

may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle



Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable

of all to use a highfalootin phrase

luxuries that is or to

wit farming and be

it needlessly

added



my Uncle Sol’s farm

failed because the chickens

ate the vegetables so

my Uncle Sol had a

chicken farm till the

skunks ate the chickens when



my Uncle Sol

had a skunk farm but

the skunks caught cold and

died and so

my Uncle Sol imitated the

skunks in a subtle manner

, or by drowning himself in the watertank

but somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a Victor

Victrola and records while he lived presented to

him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a

scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with

tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and

i remember we all cried like the Missouri

when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because

somebody pressed a button

(and down went

my Uncle

Sol



and started a worm farm)



Meaning

• Open to reader’s interpretation.
• Nobody loses because everyone dies?
• Comical hero?
• Satirises American dream suggesting that anyone can be successful.
Imagery/Figures of Speech/Diction

• Irony
• Sarcasm
• Dark Humour
Structure

• Complete irregularity: Enjambment, short lines – chaos of Sol’s life.
• Syntax: Irregular use of language: formal mixed with colloquial.
Tone/Mood

• Dark, macabre, sarcastic, hyperbolic, punitive.

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