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This is a poem entitled "Loneliness" written by Edward Estlin Cummings or popularly known as E E Cummings. At first look, one would not think that it is not a poem. The poem needs deeper understanding.
I had a difficult time understanding this poem but even if I am not so sure if my interpretaion is correct, I would still share waht I understand about it.
Being all alone makes us feel lonely. There are also times that we are not alone but we feel lonely. Something is lacking. For me, the phrase "a leaf falls" which is inside the parenthesis is significant. The use of a leaf(singular form) implies something. Why will the leaf fall? I guess that the phrase means that there is sadness. When we feel lonely, we become sad. We feel so down like we are falling. For me, the leaf stands for the person who feels lonely. The remaining leaves are the people around the lonely person.