The last line of the poem is " thou answerest them only with spring", suggesting that even though the Earth has been tortured by philosophy, science, and religion, it manages to make it through to spring each year, which is a sign of life.
This poem, has an underlying sexual theme. Cummings takes advantage of the fact that the Earth is usually referred to in the feminine sense. He makes references to the Earth being sexually abused by mankind. This "raping" of Mother Earth is most likely used both to emphasize his point.
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The arrangement of the poem on the page is Cummings' experimental effort to represent his theme. Negatively, it is a rebuff to literary conventions (which parallel the conventions of philosophy, science, and theology). Positively, it forces us to a dramatic sense of the poem's meaning. The clearest instance is the placement of "spring." The wide spaces separating the last three lines function as musical rests of varying length. The consequence is a great sudden stress on the word "spring," so that, in effect, it springs at us.
In a way which is, in the conventional sense of the term, clear--and yet poetically not very impressive--Cummings here used sex as a symbol of uninhibited spontaneity, of natural vitality in contrast to sterile human conventionality. It is a rather blunt instrument, however; and, at the least, Cummings left undefined the relationship between sex and death. The poem says that true vitality results from a relationship with death which is, somehow, like the cycle of the seasons. The nature of the relationship, however, is by no means clear. Cummings' best poems about sex fully and precisely render this relationship.
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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing whi...
E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. ... Like Emerson, Cummings was also a transcendentalist who believed that the "imaginative faculty in man can perceive the natural world directly". ... E.E. Cummings used nonconformist, distorted English to perfectly explain his feelings about nature and love....
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EE Cummings "Ride a watersmooth-silver/ stallion (4-5)," only a poem would allow somebody to imagine a dream like that. Poets have become very famous for the special talent inside, that make people think about everything by just reading a poem. One poet in particular is ee cummings. Cummings bri...
The unbridled nature of E.E. ... We are immediately introduced to the significance of word placement and line breaks as Cummings commences "she being Brand/-new... Cummings" sexual joy ride begins in lines 3-7 as he depicts the initiation of the encounter. ... As they have a second go at it, Cummings utilizes unique punctuation to portray the resurgence of sex. ... Cummings" incorporation of distinct devices elevates his writing, which is the pinnacle of poetry. ...
