O sweet spontaneous - A poem by e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings - O sweet spontaneous

O sweet spontaneous 
earth how often have 
the doting 


fingers of 
prurient philosophies pinched 
and poked 


thee 
has the naughty thumb 
of science prodded 
thy 


beauty       how 
often have religions taken 
thee upon their scraggy 
knees squeezing and 


buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive 
gods 
but 
true 


to the incomparable 
couch of death thy 
rhythmic 
lover 


thou answerest 


them only with 


spring

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: O sweet spontaneous Poem of the Day: Sep 19 2000 Comment 3 of 3, added on March 24th, 2008 at 5:15 AM. prurient philosophies pinched Is this an alliteration? Ad from United States Comment 2 of 3, added on June 6th, 2007 at 4:04 PM. The answer to how things came to be is all around us...the earth is evidence in and of itself. We are bombarded with a million questions about existence and we want every one of them answered, yet if we look around us and simply enjoy the magic of what has been put there we would see that nature answers our questions. We want answers, physical evidence...we have failed to see what is already there and in do doing this we have also closed our minds to the inconceivable Denise Varnedore from United States Comment 1 of 3, added on January 4th, 2005 at 6:11 PM. Fans of this poem may also wish to check out, "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman (1819-1892), for the similarly-themed, "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Another pair of complimentary poems by Cummings are right here in this collection: "Now i lay(with everywhere around)...," and, "Spring is like a perhaps hand..." CharlesG from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, O sweet spontaneous, has received 3 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by e.e. cummings with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: O sweet spontaneous Last read: Jul 25 2008, 8:30AM Poem of the Day: Sep 19 2000 Viewed 19341 times. Added on January 4th, 2005 at 6:11 PM.

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