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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET - REALITIES: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls Last Line: Moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Social Protest | |||
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also, with the church's protestant blessings daughters, unscented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead, are invariably interested in so many things -- at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles? perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D . . . . the Cambridge ladies do not care, above Cambridge if sometimes in its box of sky lavender and cornerless, the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG FOR MANY MOVEMENTS by AUDRE LORDE NAT BACON'S BONES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS |
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