The poem
Jehovah buried,Satan dead, do fearers worship Much and Quick; badness not being felt as bad, itself thinks goodness what is meek; obey says toc,submit says tic, Eternity's a Five Year Plan: if Joy with Pain shall hand in hock who dares to call himself a man?
go dreamless knaves on Shadows fed, your Harry's Tom,your Tom is Dick; while Gadgets murder squack and add, the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments,both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span: to kiss the mike if Jew turn kike who dares to call himself a man?
loudly for Truth have liars pled,click; where Boobs are holy,poets mad, illustrious punks of Progress shriek; when Souls are outlawed,Hearts are sick, Hearts being sick,Minds nothing can: if Hate's a game and Love's a fuck who dares to call himself a man?
King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dares to call Himself a man.
it appears that cummings is commenting on the loss of belief in a spritual way, and was replaced by the need for the bigger better.
it appears to me that cummings was refering to the hypocrisy of organized religion and that in the end we are damned no matter what we believe
I think Cummings is talking about the rise of materialism in place of religion (thus "do fearers worship Much and Quick" and "badness not being felt as bad"). Just a guess.
I think that the meaning of this poem is pretty oblious. The poem means the rate of which our society is growing and changing is beyond our control. Cummings was smart enough to see that.the values of todays society are changing for the worst. With this in mind, read the poem again and see if you understand what I mean.
I pretty much agree with all of you, and think that this is like losing the religion that you once believed in.
i like this poem, im only 15 and in high school but i believe that the person who commented "The poem means the rate of which our society is growing and changing is beyond our control. Cummings was smart enough to see that.the values of todays society are changing for the worst" is right.I am mormon and mormons live by what are nowadays called morals of yesterday, we believe in modest and chastity but i love this poem because E.E. Cummings is a man of modesty and virtue.
p.s. im using this poem for an english project. gonna make my class think
To Jasmine, i did read it over after considering what you said and you were right. His views on the world are that everything good is being replaced with things of pleasure. Take notice of how everything he mentions has a place in todays society as "in." We, as a society, are completely dumb to the ways of yesterday, and any idea of "good" is frowned upon, as the idea "wrong" is dumbed down and looked upon as acceptable.
"But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control,fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures reather than lovers of God ... wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being mislead." 2 Timothy 3:1-4, 13
"Jahova" starts with an I...Correct? I'm not religious, I don't go to church, I don't even beleive in god, but I do like Indiana Jones. ;P
I think that this poem is saying something about how we are losing our humanity and we are ruled by money. By the way, to whoever posted last, WWII wasn't until 1939. 1933 was the Great Depression.
He uses all lower cases in this poem. That shows his irreeverence for God. God with a small g would be the Unitarian god. His dad was a Unitarian minister. Jesus is not God and our savior in unitarianism. So I'm having trouble seeing this poem as being in favor of spirituality.
There are two different forms of this poems that I have read. The one already posted (I'll call that p1) and the one I prefer (called p2). The first difference is that in p2 the the word “hand” is changed to “hang” in the “if Joy with Pain shall hang in hock” line from the first section. To me this make more sense and clears up the meaning of the poem. The other difference is that in p2 the line “their heels for Freedom slaves will click;” is added after the “loudly for Truth have liars pled,” line. That added line is why I think p2 is the correct version, because it make the line count 8, 8, 8, 4 instead of 8, 8, 7, 4.
I think the line who dares to call himself a man in each end of the stanzas implies that man was called a man but cannot act as a man or cannot act as awhat he should be when he was made by God.
English
The poem Jehovah Buried reveals the spiritual void prevalent in the modern world. As Man has become materialistic and slave to machines he has no time for religious activities and spirituality. Hence he has buried God.Absence of God and satan would lead to
absence of religion. Jesus is the Saviour and through Him is salvation.
nce of religion