Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death
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Buffalo Bill - context Summary
After Buffalo Bill's Death
Written in response to the public news of Buffalo Bill’s death (1917), Cummings’ short lyric collapses showmanship and mortality. The poem recalls the famous performer’s flair—riding a "watersmooth-silver stallion" and shooting pigeons—then abruptly addresses Death with an intimate question about the fallen "blue-eyed boy." Its spare lines register both the end of spectacle and a modernist skepticism about heroism and immortality.
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