Poem Response #2

The poem "Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand" by e.e. cummings kind of gives off the idea that you should feel tension while reading it. Like you should be careful reading it or taking care of it. Some of these lines sound like it could be something out of like cleaning a house. That is what at least the first half. The second half sounds like it is narrating a person with lots of power and it is switching old things to new things and placing an "inch of air here", to me sounds like he or she is making something float or decorating. The last line, without breaking anything, felt like it should receive the most tension. I'm not sure why he would choose a title with a perhaps hand. I am not too sure what he means by this. It talks of a window so maybe it is a window to two worlds, one with human capability or changing, and one with god- like capabilities and people from both sides are looking into the window.

The poem Pear Tree by H.D. is a poem that sounds like it is about the growth of a tree from the beginning. Or maybe of a pear. In the beginning it talks about silver dust lifting from earth. I thought this was like pollen beginning the first phases of having a pear grow. Maybe she is just giving everyday things more enthusiasm by adding new and interesting colors to it. Like pollen is silver, a staunch white leaf that parted silver, a white pear, and the purple hearts of them. She is making everything interesting by taking simple things and making them more exciting by making them futuristic colors. She talked about how you cannot get such a rare silver of that from a flower parting. I could see this resemblance because seeing something grow into something more beautiful is an event, but having something already be there and the smelting it to see it beautiful is different. I like how she made nature more interesting by taking the beauty of it and expanding on that.