E. E. Cummings

Ecco a Letter Starting

love lyric poem playful dreamlike

ecco a letter starting"dearest we" unsigned:remarkably brief but covering one complete miracle of nearest far "i cordially invite me to become noone except yourselves r s v p" she cannot read or write,la moon. Employs a very crazily how clownlike that this quickly ghost scribbling from there to where -name unless i'm mistaken chauvesouris- whose grammar is atrocious;but so what princess selene doesn't know a thing who's much too busy being her beautiful yes. The place is now let us accept (the time forever,and you'll wear your silver shoes

Ecco a Letter Starting - meaning Summary

Invitation to Self-erasure

Cummings presents a playful, intimate mock-letter in which the speaker invites self-erasure into an addressed plural "we," offering to become "noone except yourselves." The poem mixes whimsical, fragmented imagery—an illiterate moon, a ghostly scribble, a misnamed chauvesouris—and dismisses grammatical correctness in favor of bodily, romantic surrender. It ends with a promise of shared place and time, a private forever marked by "silver shoes."

Read Complete Analyses
default user
PoetryVerse just now

Feel free to be first to leave comment.

8/2200 - 0