loneliness is not always next to oneliness

E.E. Cummings, a poet with a crazy mind. With his poems I have read (although I did not take time to understand most of them), his style in writing is very unconventional. He used the punctuations, the structure and positioning of the characters on the pages to express the idea of his poems. His construction of the lines even defies the correct English grammar. He started writing when he was still six. His first poem was dedicated to his father. Ever since then, his style in writing was never of the traditional way. One of these poems that is very symbolistic is Loneliness (A leaf falls). Many forums were put forth to talk about the poem of what message Cummings really want to reach us. I was so interested on their different views. There were many who presented views and I’ll just present to you what I think about their thoughts and formulate my own.

Now, let’s get this over with.

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We can say that being lonely or loneliness doesn’t only refer to being alone or with no companion but it is the feeling of emptiness and isolation from the people around you. You can be lonely without being alone. For instance you attend a house party and the house is so crowded. Everyone except you is enjoying the party. You are not alone all those times but you feel so lonely and separated from them. Loneliness for me is the state of being in another dimension, whether or not you are with someone.
In the poem, we can see that the first and last letter “L” are alone, separated from the other characters in the poem. If we use courier new as our font style, which was frequently used in typewriters during his time, the character “1” looks the same as the small letter “l”. It could represent one and L at the same time. This could tell us that we are lonely if we are alone. If we would not consider the first “l” at the beginning of the poem, it could mean oneliness. According to the definition by the wikipedia.com, oneliness is the state of being one. With this definition, I think when you are in oneliness, you are with yourself and you are being yourself when you are alone. He just wanted to tell us something about loneliness and oneliness and how they are related.
Look at the first column of the poem. You can form the word fall and “soli” which could mean, in solitude, we may fall. That’s what I think. Solitude implies the choice of being alone which may not necessarily make you feel lonely. Probably you would be in the state of oneliness rather than in loneliness.
With the leaf that falls, I think the trend of the falling characters tells us something about the movement of the leaves when it falls. The whole structure of the poem is like the number one itself.