Between Green
art & creativity
lyric poem
joyful
between green mountains sings the flinger of fire beyond red rivers of fair perpetual feet the sinuous riot the flashing bacchant. partedpetaled mouth,face delirious. indivisible grace of dancing
Between Green - meaning Summary
Nature as Ecstatic Motion
Cummings’ short lyric compresses an ecstatic vision of nature as dancing, sensual energy. Images—“green mountains,” a “flinger of fire,” red rivers, a flashing bacchant—collapse landscape and human passion into a single riot of motion. The poem emphasizes union and indivisibility through kinetic, celebratory language, suggesting ritualized release and a seamless merger of body, element, and delight rather than a literal scene or narrative.
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