All Which Isn't Singing Is Mere Talking
All Which Isn't Singing Is Mere Talking - meaning Summary
Song Versus Mere Talk
Cummings contrasts 'singing'—authentic, shared, almost sacred expression—with ordinary 'talking,' which he treats as self-address and empty noise. Speech aimed at persuading, labeling, or commanding becomes inward and self-referential. The poem argues that much human communication is mere soliloquy, while true song transcends that solipsism and culminates paradoxically in a quiet, wordless silence that completes genuine expression.
Read Complete Analysesall which isn't singing is mere talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf) gush to it as deity or devil -toss in sobs and reasons threats and smiles name it cruel fair or blessed evil- it is you (ne i)nobody else drive dumb mankind dizzy with haranguing -you are deafened every mother's son- all is merely talk which isn't singing and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence
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