Poem of the Week - 2011

The poem is very conservative, it is parochial in its syntactical disposition , it does not take care of non native English speakers, please next time take care to address universality of English culture by avoiding to be chauvinistic

Which Cummings poem? I looked back through the thread, couldn't find the one you mean. I like this one of his:

I Will Wade Out
i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
Will i complete the mystery
of my flesh
I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

thanks for this thread.

Amazing poem. but i was lost in the second stanza third line.
Very nice.

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Originally Posted by FTJohnson

This is much better! See more at StudyGeek.org. :)

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just seen this
StudGreek.org sounds good :)

Yes it is a man's voice. Otherwise why should the grieving woman be seen as so weak that only a god can punish her offender? The irony and ridicule are unmistakbly there although there is also a hint of sympathy for the sufferer.

Interesting. I especially liked this part:

When a man, wi' heartless slighten,
Mid become a maiden's blighten,
He mid cearelessly vorseake her,
But must answer to her Meaker;

Sounds a bit like what Alanis Morissette was doing with "You Oughta Know." :)