All Ignorance Toboggans Into Know
All Ignorance Toboggans Into Know - meaning Summary
Ignorance Cycles Into Knowing
Cummings presents knowing and ignorance as a cyclical, almost playful process: knowledge accumulates then retreats, like winter snow melting into spring. He treats history as a limited pastime—too small to contain human experience—and mocks collective myth and conformity. The poem rejects being archived by the past or future, claiming the present as refuge: if others try to fix us in time, we will "move away still further: into now."
Read Complete Analysesall ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again: but winter's not forever,even snow melts;and if spring should spoil the game,what then? all history's a winter sport or three: but were it five,i'd still insist that all history is too small for even me; for me and you,exceedingly too small. Swoop(shrill collective myth)into thy grave merely to toil the scale to shrillerness per every madge and mabel dick and dave --tomorrow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now
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