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e.e. cummings's innovative style provoked comment and expanded artistic boundaries in the literary world. Students will be fascinated by the appearance of his poems and his unconventional treatment of words, punctuation, and form. maggie and milly and molly and may maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea. who are you, little i who are you,little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window;at the gold of November sunset (and feeling:that if day ...