Activity # 1:
Compare and analyze this other Cummings poem and its overall message with that of "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home

of knowledgeable shadows(quick to seize
each nothing with all soulless wraiths proclaim
substance;all heartless spectres, happiness)

lovers alone wear sunlight. The whole truth

not hid by matter;not by mind revealed
(more than all dying life,all living death)
and never which has been or will be told

sings only-and all lovers are the song.

Here(only here)is freedom :always here
no then of winter equals now of spring;
but april's day transcends november's year

(eternity being so sans until
twice i have lived forever in a smile)

Activity # 2:
Compare and analyze this second Cummings poem and its overall message with that of "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

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from 95 poems

being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end;
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land

(do lovers suffer?all divinities
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad?only their smallest joy's
a universe emerging from a wish)

love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness;
the truth more first than sun more last than star

-do lovers love?why then to heaven with hell.
Whatever sages say and fools, all's well