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We both agree that Valerie's essay on the interpretation of E.E. Cummings's poem "Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand." We think this because we did not find her explanation of the word "perhaps," completely adequate. Some evidence that proves this is "It makes me wonder whose hand is being describes." This evidence is too literal, whereas the poem itself seems to be more of a figurative comparison.

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We both agree of Valerie's Interpretation of E.E Cumming's poem, "Spring is like a perhaps hand." We agree because in her literary analysis she compares the uncertainty to winter to spring, and how she explains her interpretation that when E.E Cummings says, "spring is like a perhaps hand", he means that "perhaps may be meant to caution readers that spring may not have really arrived." This makes sense when you think about E.E Cummings pass, and how he was wrongfully sent to detention for three months.

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Evidence:
"...Only five words, Spring,Hand, Nowhere, Old, and new."
"Spring is like a perhaps hand."
Why:
Valerie didn't look deeper into the meaning of the poem and only interpreted the literal meaning of it.  She took "Spring is a perhaps hand," the five capitalized words, and the hand in a shop window very literally and didn't thing that there could be another meeting. Overall, she took the entire poem literally and didn't go into the deeper meaning of it.

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She makes the analysis of the poem seem simple/doesn't deeply analyze the big parts of it. She takes the simile, "Spring is like a perhaps hand" too literally. When she is talking about the setting of a poem, when I don't think there is one. The so-called setting that is in the poem, I think it stands for something deeper than just a window w/ a hand in it

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We agreed that we agree with Valerie's essay because of all her reference to the hand in the window and the placement of the word 'perhaps', which we also noticed.

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My interpretation of the poem was different from hers but I still agree with the perspective . IN the last paragraph she said we cant always be certain that spring has arrived. I agree with this because as people walked by the house nobody would notice the changes in the window. This represents spring because it is hard to notice when it comes.

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We agree with her perspective because her interpretation of "spring is like a perhaps hand". and the meaning of perhaps in the poem makes the readers think deeper. She also agrees that cummings used capital letter to create on emphasis on the most important words.

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I do agree with the connections between Winter and Spring that were talked about in the Essay. However I also believe that there are parts of the poem that relate to his own personal life and his past experiences. An example of this would be "New and Old" Which relates to what I believe is the New him being after he gets out of jail and the Old him being him before.

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Spring doesn't necessarily rearrange the "window" but rather clean it and make new. "carefully to and fro moving New and Old things"  Spring is like a perhaps hand.

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We agreed with Valerie's analysis of EE Cumming's poem for several reasons. For example, she explained the meaning of Cumming's imagery as it was used in his poem. She also explained why he wrote in such odd styles. For example, she stated that he capitalized significant words, and we also agreed with this statement.

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Evidence:

"Perhaps may be meant to caution readers that Spring may not really have arrived."

Why:
This shows the personality and style of E.E Cumming's writing. It also connects with his backstory .

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I agree with Valerie's claim because of many reasons. She includes a lot of evidence which includes her living in the north east and the time that everything starts. She also talks about the capitalization and punctuation of certain words such as Spring and Hand which gives the claim evidence. She also had a very creative outlook on what she thought.

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We agree with her perspective. The first reason is because she talks about how in the first voice he uses "odd capitalization" and he does by capitalizing certain words, and not others.

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We agree with her literary analysis because she is able to give detail on her thoughts of the poem and allow us to get a deeper understanding of the poem and why it is trying to convince us of Winter becoming Spring. She using phrases like " The Hand is the poem's key image. Perhaps may be meant to caution readers that spring may not really have arrived."

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She gives evidence to her statemets like how in the 4th paragraph, she explained why there were only 5 capitalized words. She describes what the perhaps hand was and she used evidence from the poem.

She was able to use her own personal expericence  to relate and understand parts of the poem.

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She points out the key words and how things may be linked together.

"The words Old and New stress the change from winter to spring. The Hand is the poem's hey image. Perhaps may be meant to caution readers that spring may not really have arrived

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We hold this viewpoint because she takes the evidence he  uses and completley changes it to what she thinks. For example when she says  that E.E Cummings is talking about how winter turns into spring in his poem, she makes a single assumption and "deletes" the other ideas around it.

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Evidence: Valerie explains that the 5 capitalized letters are "probably the important ones."
Explanation: Valerie gives a good point on how the words Old and New stress the change between the old winter and new spring.  She really thought this out, and realized that the words must have deeper meaning.

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Evidence: Only five words, Spring, Hand, Nowhere, Old, and New. These words are probably the most important".
Reasoning: We were already thinking this and then she provided her opinion which helped back ours up.

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"Spring might come slowly, but it does come at last."

We both agree because Valerie used evidence from the poem to support her reasoning. She explained the meaning behind the final line of the poem and made it simple for everyone to understand.

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We both agree because, though we didn't interpret the poem the same way at first, we agreed that her reasons really made sense. We really agreed with her interpretation of the main idea of the poem, "We can't always be certain when Spring has arrived." We also liked when she said, "Perhaps it may be meant to caution readers that spring may not have really arrived", while talking about the use of the word "perhaps".

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We are all pretty much on the fence about this one. We agree with the idea that spring could be interpreted as being compared to a hand rearranging things (as spring does-turning old things into new) and that the most important words in the poem (or the things to focus on) are the capitalized words, but we don't feel like it is defended or supported well enough.
It seems very surface level and inside the box- the poem deserves a more in-depth analysis.

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Evidence: E.E cummings is very clearly an outside the box mind. However, interpretations of the text are very inside the box

EX. "The words new and old stress the change from old winter to new spring"

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evidence: she developed and support her interpretation of talking winter turning into spring
this is good because she understood the controlling idea

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She points out that there are only 5 capitalized words. We agree that they are important and maybe even connected. She provides explicit evidence such as, "the words Old and New stress the change from old winter to new spring."

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Evidence: We chose this because we liked her different approach to things. She is on the line of the box and she shows good evidence, and gives us good reasoning to back it up.
Quote: This is the resolution of the poem, " without breaking anything." Spring might come slowly, but it does come at last. "

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She says that the placement of the word perhaps caused her to "slow down and concentrate more closely."  I agree because while reading I did the exact same thing and felt the same way as she did while reading.

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evidence: She explains that Cummings uses capitalization, punctuation, and figurative language in order to "create an image of winter into spring." (paragraph 1).

Valerie takes key points from the poem and effectively analyzes them

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"...the resolution of the poem comes in the final line..."

We agree with that statement because the way that he compared spring to a hand rearranging things in a window, is saying that spring comes in gently without breaking anything.

Final line: "without breaking anything."

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The Poem, "Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand," By: E.E. Cummings puts emphasis on the term, "Moving." In the first "Stanza" the following is stated, "Carefully there a strange and a known thing here." Although this could be talking about spring, as the change is very irregular yet familiar, I do not believe that Spring is being compared to the hand, as Valerie stated, but instead it is being compared to a powerful observer, who oversees the process of the changing seasons, and encounters a very fuzzy barrier, Spring. The response is a very clear, yet a very straightforward writing. I believe that instead, you have to go more in depth to figure out just what the author is trying to portray.

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"Perhaps may be meant to caution readers that spring may not really have arrived" and "it's interesting the Cummings only capitalizes 5 words".

We agree with Valerie's essay because she breaks down the words and phrases in the poem to get a deeper meaning of them and link them together.

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Explanation Why.