If you’ve been in love, you’ve felt this: the fear of the inevitable end of your relationship. The fear of your lover moving on to someone else. Your rejection.
The Petrarchan form of the poem deliberately contradicts its intention: while Cummings claims he is willing to forget his love, the form traditionally intends to preserve it.
E. E. Cummings, Self-Portrait
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Songs That Interpolate It may not always be so; and i say