O Sweet Spontaneous - Linguistic Analysis Of Poem By Ee Cummings

In the analysis of the poem “O sweet spontaneous” cummings speaks of his love of Mother Earth, and he also displays his disdain of humanity. He writes that although humankind performs scientific research, pollutes the earth, and even tries to destroy her, she responds to the abuses with the greatest strength and gift of all, life. His poetic and linguistic techniques make this poem flow as it shapes the ima

O sweet spontaneous offers two specific graphological features, the consistent use of the non-capital letters (common in cummings’ poetry), with the exception of the first letter - actually used as a word, and the olde English use. Cummings’ use of deep spacing between the stanzas and the indention of words do not necessarily bring a new paragraph, but instead are meant to emphasize a moment in time. O sweet spontaneous begins with alliteration and continues its use throughout and he uses assonance in employing phonetic parallelism. This poem furthermore gives prominence to enjambed lines, in typical cummings’ flare, which can trick the reader into thinking a complete thought. The poem has only one capital letter, one comma, and one period. Nonetheless, with the use of a misplaced comma and/or period, these significant punctuation markers stress a precise and deliberate thought pattern thereby creating a larger, and more complete unit of thought. He ultimately blends the old with the new to demonstrate perhaps, that Mother Earth is enduring, while man is a pest(ilence).

Thou answerest them only with spring)

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