Next To Of Course God America 1 Summary

In e. e. Cummings’ poem “next to of course god america i” cummings’ describes the heroic actions the military made for america.

This claim is proved numerous times throughout the poem. For example, in line 9-10, cummings’ writes “what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead”. When cummings’ mentions this, it shows that there is nothing more beautiful than the people who fought for our country and died. This can be shown as many military members are heroic as they are sacrificting themselves for our country, and they were happy doing this. In line 12, “they did not stop to think they died instead” further shows that the military made many heroic actions. If some punctuation was added, this line can be split into “they did not stop to think. They died instead.” This shows that the military did not stop to
Since cummings’ uses the term “instead”, this shows that the miltary didn’t think they were going to die when the US entered the war. The fact that the they died most likely represents that they were in the military in war, as the plural represents many people died, and civilians do not usually die as a group. In line 7, it can be seen that cummings’ is describing the military when cummings’ writes, “thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry”. This represents how the military fought for our country through bloodshed and war. Thy sons show the “sons” of america, or the citizens of america. By saying that they “acclaim your glorious name”, cummings’ refers to the way the citizens of america declared america a country after recieving independence and becoming a country. This can be seen as acclaims means to declare something, and america wasn’t originally called america, until they had recieved their independence. By doing this through “gorry”, cummings’ refers to