E. E. Cummings

Beyond the Brittle Towns Asleep

Beyond the Brittle Towns Asleep - meaning Summary

Dusk Over the Sea

The poem depicts a solitary speaker watching the sea at dusk. Repeated phrases emphasize the repeating, diminishing light as foam and shorelines are described with vivid, uncanny motion. The ocean becomes a vast, impersonal presence pouring "eyeless miles," while sunset dies and only strange tidal sounds remain. Overall it conveys a quiet, eerie encounter with nature’s scale and indifference, mixing wonder with a sense of smallness and loss.

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beyond the brittle towns asleep beyond the brittle towns asleep i look where stealing needles of foam in the last light thread the creeping shores as out of dumb strong hands infinite the erect deep upon me in the last light pours its eyeless miles the chattering sunset ludicrously dies,i hear only tidewings in the last light twitching at the world

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