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Comment 3 of 13, added on June 23rd, 2005 at 1:00 PM.
The imagery of the Cambridge ladies is that of complacent
self-satisfaction, as in the "whited sepulchre" of the New Testament. They
do not examine the furnishings of their souls, but are content to "believe
in Longfellow and Jesus, both dead", and occupy their thoughts with
trivia.
To the extent that we waste our own lives "getting and spending," ignoring
the cosmic issues that surround us, we also live in furnished souls. WE are
the Cambridge ladies.
DrPat from United States
Comment 2 of 13, added on June 12th, 2005 at 3:25 AM.
This poem is a scathing attack on the "Cambridge women"--those well-off,
upper-class women--who have nothing better to do with their lives but sit
around, gossip about other people, and support meaningless causes.
Cummings is angry with these women for not thinking for themselves, and for
not seeing that there's so much more to the world than knitting and
scandal.
Shannon from United States
Comment 1 of 13, added on February 7th, 2005 at 9:24 PM.
This poem is retarded and someone needs to make some sense out of it...its
too hard to understand and if no one else understands it, why the heck did
the man write it?
Josie from United States
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The imagery of the Cambridge ladies is that of complacent
self-satisfaction, as in the "whited sepulchre" of the New Testament. They
do not examine the furnishings of their souls, but are content to "believe
in Longfellow and Jesus, both dead", and occupy their thoughts with
trivia.
To the extent that we waste our own lives "getting and spending," ignoring
the cosmic issues that surround us, we also live in furnished souls. WE are
the Cambridge ladies.
DrPat from United States