Reaction: I was really confused at first. I was all like "What the heck's this supposed to mean?" But I was intrigued by the uniqueness and strangeness of it, so I tried to figure it out.
Meaning: After rearranging the letters, I think it came out to be "Grasshopper, who as we look now up-gathering into a grasshopper leaps! Arriving to become rearrangingly a grasshopper." This poem that Cummings wrote illustrates the movements of the grasshopper itself, leaping wildly from place to place, as did the letters and words in the poem. It shows the spontaneity of the grasshopper, leaping into then landing back on the ground again. What was also interesting was how Cummings wrote the word 'grasshopper'. He scrambled the letters every time he wrote the word, excepting the last time.
Technique: Cummings used some free verse, along with capitalization, spelling, spacing, and grammatical techniques in order to make his poem even better.
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