EE ​​Cummings' poem, "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May," tells the adventure of four girls who each learn a lesson in their experiences. To explain these lessons, Cummings uses poetic devices such as alliteration, simile, and symbolism, to elucidate the messages in an engaging manner. In "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May", Maggie, Milly, Molly and May find a shell, a starfish, a crab and a stone in which each object sends a message. At the beginning of the poem, Cummings quickly describes the beginning of the poem. meeting at the beach: “and Maggie discovered a shell that sang / so sweetly that she no longer remembered her troubles, and” (3-4). When referring to the song of a seashell, the sound of the ocean is heard from the seashell after bringing it to one ear. Maggie is so fascinated by this particular sound that her tribulations escape her mind. To express this thought, Cummings uses biased rhymes to exquisitely elucidate the meaning of the two lines without overtly inferring it. Just as Cummings gets to the point in lines three and four, the same is done in lines five and six of Mil....