Comprehensive notes covering Nobody Loses All The Time by E E Cummings.
A combination of information from the textbook, The Complete Poetry Resource (Sixth Edition), as well as additional class and video notes.
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Ironic as Sol only unintentionally
Nobody Loses All the Time
succeeds after his death, which is often
by e e cummings considered as your greatest failure.
nobody loses all the time Repetition of the title.
The tone seems optimistic as with
perseverance comes success.
i had an uncle named Sol = “sun” (Latin).
The sun gives life, just as he eventually
Sol who was a born failure and gives life to the worms as they feed on him.
nearly everybody said he should have gone A type of entertainment popular in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could consisting of a variety of singing,
dancing, and comic acts.
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which Song title.
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle
Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable Unforgivable, intolerable, unpardonable.
(Pretentious, grandiose, pompous, snobbish)
Southern Dialect - Links to “Missouri” in
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
(Written our phonetically) line 32 and could indicate that the
luxuries that is or to speaker is uneducated.
Parody: Possibly a social commentary
wit farming and be on the “Southern” culture
(people living in rural areas were
it needlessly ridiculed as being unintelligent)
Modern saying: “needless to say”
added
Thus the outcome of Sol’s attempt
at farming could be predicted.
Reasons for the farm’s failure:
- The farm failed initially because,
my Uncle Sol’s farm
- although it was a vegetable farm,
failed because the chickens - the chickens ate the vegetables
- which Sol did not foresee because
ate the vegetables so - he was a born failure.
my Uncle Sol had a - The skunks then ate the chickens
- which Sol did not prevent.
chicken farm till the
- Sol then had a skunk farm, but
skunks ate the chickens when - they caught cold and died (usually
- a cold is easily treatable), but he
- was unlucky.
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