Sunday, February 5, 2012

Help me analyze this poem by: e.e. cummings "in a middle of a room"?

in a middle of a room by E. E. Cummings

in a middle of a room

stands a suicide

sniffing a Paper rose

smiling to a self



"somewhere it is Spring and sometimes

people are in real:imagine

somewhere real flowers,but

I can't imagine real flowers for if I



could,they would somehow

not Be real"

(so he smiles

smiling)"but I will not



everywhere be real to

you in a moment"

The is blond

with small hands



"%26amp; everything is easier

than I had guessed everything would

be;even remembering the way who

looked at whom first,anyhow dancing



(a moon swims out of a cloud

a clock strikes midnight

a finger pulls a trigger

a bird flies into a mirror)

Help me analyze this poem by: e.e. cummings "in a middle of a room"?
This person standing in the middle of the room has been jilted and is way out of touch with living. There are no real flowers to smell, so an imatation one will do. Remembering how and where they first met at a dance, with great attraction, are the thoughts before dying. It is at midnight when this person is gonna commit suicide and when it happens , it is like the old saying of predicted death, like a bird flying into a window or mirror. The bird flew into the mirror at midnight. A prediction of Death and it happened.

An old saying is: When a bird flys into a window glass, it means there is gonna be a death in the family. At midnight this person committed suicide.
Reply:a very haunting time of reflection before ending a life full of confusion, self loathing and none of it matters....as the choice has been made and they will carry through with the plan...
Reply:this poem by e e cummings, if memory serves me right, is part of a set of poetry that speaks of the less romantic and brutally more realistic side of mans existence. hence the author dips the reader into the moment before a person takes his own life. the author illustrates a sense of surrender by showing the non-existence of spring by saying "somewhere it is Spring", by the loss of a flowers fragrance by juxtposing "sniffing" and "Paper rose". the author sets the mood in the poem and culminates it in the last four lines where "a bird files into a mirror"

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