Poetry Analysis

Anyone lived in a pretty how town ~~ee cummings

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/11880

I studied this poem and wrote a twelve paragraph paper on it...
I came up with some pretty odd conclusions, and such.
I know this is a famous poem, and you have probably already analyzed all you can out of it, but I'd like to hear your theories on it.

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I haven't read that poem in years and years. Thanks for posting it. It has such a nice rhythm to the words - Of course, there's the wonderful alternating sequencing of the seasons, and turning the grammar upside down. Very clear and understandable - not at all like reading an amateur's poetry where the words are twisted for the sake of twisting, and rendering the sense of the work incomprehensible in the process. I especially love:

when by now
and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy
she cried his grief

And what were your conclusions? I get that it's about the cycles of the seasons, of life. It's so rich in feeling and it's done in so few words. It's a very modern poem, even though written many years ago

Oh... You want my explaination?
Haha... Alright, but I warn you, it might get rather long....

The way I see it, this is a poem about a community. There are two main characters, anyone, and noone.
anyone seems to be male, while noone seems to be female.

The strange thing about this town is that most people are rather haughty, and don't really live their lives to the fullest... They just sort of are... and they do what they do.
None of the members of the community seem to actually care about anyone else. Save for anyone and noone. They have a bond, and because they aren't as self centered as the rest, they live in a sort of opposite world[in terms of how they react to things].
The lines such as "sun moon stars rain," signal the passing of time.

The part about "up so floating many bells down," ...well, that just sounds really cool... But I was wondering, perhaps cummings was describing a flower... maybe a certain flower which has a specific meaning to it. [rememberance? love? friendship? appreciation?]

Besides that, there are someones and everyones, who are more or less the counterparts to anyone and noone. someones and everyones just don't really live... notice lines such as "did their didn't" "and "slept their dream"

It's like they missed out entirely on life.

cummings also includes the children, who are innocent enough to recognize the good qualities of anyone and noone. Sadly, it seems, they, too, end up like the majority of the town's people...

Notice also, that after anyone dies, anyone and noone are burried near each other... But if you read the lines surrounding that[I would write them, but I don't remember them off the top of my head], they describe how, even in death, noone and anyone are still together. And by the end of the poem, you realize that it's love which is the most important thing of all.
Real.
True.
Love.

[[End of ten billion page thesis]]

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Heh... not my idea in the first place, it was required for my English class... and, rather than giving some lame Shell Silverstein interpretation about how he wanted to "spread da loooove," I figured I might as well actually use my brain.

And, yeah. I have no life. I enjoy it emensely.

Ps::
Thanks!