Cummings I just read that he preferred that editors and critics capitalize his name , I can sometimes read fifty or more pages in his Complete Poems and not find a single poem that I like. Blow king to beggar and queen to seem blow friend to fiend: blow space to time — when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man. It hardly seems that the two poems could have been written by the same author.
A lot of online commentators apparently see the poem as a description of the end of the world. And while I can see why they might interpret the poem that way, it seems to me the real emphasis is on the last two lines of each stanza, which offer a remarkably optimistic view, considering the opening lines. Cummings is one on the few modern poets who writes about things simply". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Although some might say that interpreting feelings into correct grammar and syntax is like a refiner's fire that burns out impurities, Cummings would call this "refiner's fire" emotional arson.
Cummings need for expressing his feelings in a pure form led to his embracing of "Imagist manifesto guidelines that allowed him to experiment and to break old rules". Elements of Literature, Cummings poems were not originally written in English, they were merely translated from the language of the soul. Click here for poem and analysis. Post a Comment.
View my complete profile. G Froggers. Friday, November 11, "what if a much of a which of a wind" analysis by Jeff Reed. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens and a If you notice their are colins, semicolins, and capitolization that is not right.
THose were…….. Ya know? Okay- so this is my take… ee cummings is totally predicting the future. Its kind of dark and almost pesimistic the first time through but after you read it like 20 times- you see where he was going with it. Lines relate back to the secret that is man. The screaming hills arent hills at all- but a human. This is a poem that defentaly deals with the experience,fear, and hardships of living in a World War type of envirnment.
One question I am not sure of is if Cummings tone is positive or negative. Each line of this poem can be broken down to have something to do with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Carefully examine it. I take it as a commentary on the inherent evil of mankind, maybe its duality.
It seems he is asking what if all this insanity is happening all around us. All of these polar opposites are unraveling; the single secret will still be man. Man does and undoes his existence, the most who die the more we live. We must destroy to survive. It is incredibly ironic that the sound of the poem is so perfect and rolls off the tongue with such ease. I agree with you, Megan!
It totally shows humanity as it is and will be…. To me, this poem is about an apocalypse of pure winter. A great wind of destruction destroys the stars, covers the earth with snow, makes the sun appear bloody by blowing dead, fallen autumn leaves all over the place, causing chaos and destruction. Because of all this, humanity is forced to be true to its own nature in order to survive — royalty is no better, but in fact worse than regular people, friends are enemies when the tides have turned, etc.
However, with all the death will emerge survivors who will be able to stay alive in the midst of all the dying. That is my humble interpretation of the poem, but seriously?
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