Collated Noted on E.E Cummings 'My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love
.E Cummings
My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love
my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height
this motionless forgetful where turned at his glance to shining here; that if(so timid air is firm) under his eyes would stir and squirm
newly as from unburied which floats the first who, his april touch drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates woke dreamers to their ghostly roots
and should some why completely weep my father’s fingers brought her sleep: vainly no smallest voice might cry for he could feel the mountains grow.
scorning the pomp of must and shall my father moved through dooms of feel; his anger was as right as rain his pity was as green as grain
septembering arms of years extend less humbly wealth to foe and friend than he to foolish and to wise offered immeasurable is
proudly and (by octobering flame beckoned) as earth will downward climb, so naked for immortal work his shoulders marched against the dark
his sorrow was as true as bread: no liar looked him in the head; if every friend became his foe he’d laugh and build a world with snow.
This poem 'my father moved through dooms of love' by e. e. cummings is an elegy written after the death of the poet’s own father, the Reverend Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister and Harvard university professor. It is a poem about love. The poem does not so much explain it as demonstrate. Not simply recording the ideals of a real man, the poet chooses to embody his own highest ideals in a fictionalized character, describe him in action, and claims a sonship with him which makes clear his own intellectual and spiritual heritage.
Stanzas 1 to 4 make up the first section of the poem, which introduces the speaker’s father as a man of tremendous capacity for love. The first stanza gives a picture of a man who realized the danger of being
My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love
my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height
this motionless forgetful where turned at his glance to shining here; that if(so timid air is firm) under his eyes would stir and squirm
newly as from unburied which floats the first who, his april touch drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates woke dreamers to their ghostly roots
and should some why completely weep my father’s fingers brought her sleep: vainly no smallest voice might cry for he could feel the mountains grow.
scorning the pomp of must and shall my father moved through dooms of feel; his anger was as right as rain his pity was as green as grain
septembering arms of years extend less humbly wealth to foe and friend than he to foolish and to wise offered immeasurable is
proudly and (by octobering flame beckoned) as earth will downward climb, so naked for immortal work his shoulders marched against the dark
his sorrow was as true as bread: no liar looked him in the head; if every friend became his foe he’d laugh and build a world with snow.
This poem 'my father moved through dooms of love' by e. e. cummings is an elegy written after the death of the poet’s own father, the Reverend Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister and Harvard university professor. It is a poem about love. The poem does not so much explain it as demonstrate. Not simply recording the ideals of a real man, the poet chooses to embody his own highest ideals in a fictionalized character, describe him in action, and claims a sonship with him which makes clear his own intellectual and spiritual heritage.
Stanzas 1 to 4 make up the first section of the poem, which introduces the speaker’s father as a man of tremendous capacity for love. The first stanza gives a picture of a man who realized the danger of being