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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: Humanity i love you
Comment 20 of 20, added on July 11th, 2008 at 9:45 AM.
the last lines are a redemption of mankind.
cummings does not stray from sarcasm even at the end, and perhaps begrudgingly, turns his condemnation on its head because of mankind's willingness to "make poems in the lap of death" (create in the midst of its own suffering, mortality and denial)
William Brennan from United States
Comment 19 of 20, added on February 18th, 2008 at 6:31 AM.
Love this poem,basically he;s saying humanity is full of fuc-ers who are more interested in peoples status and front than who they are internally "Whose soul dangles from his watch chain".
He says we possess a bit of morality admist all the crap things we do but mostly in the end he is resigned to us being blind to "importance of life",to what life is,we are continually forgeting it's there like lost car keys.
Kaatrien from Australia
Comment 18 of 20, added on April 17th, 2007 at 9:32 PM.
"E.E. Cummings is a heavy user of sarcasm and personification in his poetry. He follows very closely the guidelines of modernistic imagism, covering his true and honest feelings only with a thin layer of sarcasm, still making his true point strongly felt by the reader. And at the end of this poem, Cummings even ceases use of that and just comes straight out and makes his point flat out. Another strong element present here is his use of personification, evident throughout the poem. Not only does he use personification as the overall picture of humanity, but he also uses this personification along with material metaphors to emphasize upon the selfish nature of humanity."
this is the introduction to my research paper on his poem. SUGGESTIONS, TIPS, CRITICISM WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED!!!!!!
Paul_loyolahs from United States
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the last lines are a redemption of mankind.
cummings does not stray from sarcasm even at the end, and perhaps begrudgingly, turns his condemnation on its head because of mankind's willingness to "make poems in the lap of death" (create in the midst of its own suffering, mortality and denial)
William Brennan from United States