But If a Living Dance Upon Dead Minds
But If a Living Dance Upon Dead Minds - meaning Summary
Love Defies Mortality
The poem argues that love is a living force that outlasts and overwhelms dead minds, physical laws, and measurement. Cummings presents love as simultaneously ordinary and cosmic: it survives imprisonment and torture, refuses to be catalogued or quantified, and can reveal wonders beyond the visible universe. The speaker asserts love’s power against time and death, suggesting it yields an inexorable, sublime presence that opens hidden worlds and exceeds human comprehension.
Read Complete Analysesbut if a living dance upon dead minds why,it is love;but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear moon's utmost magic,or stones speak or one name control more incredible splendor than our merely universe, love's also there: and being here imprisoned,tortured here love everywhere exploding maims and blinds (but surely does not forget,perish, sleep cannot be photographed,measured;disdains the trivial labelling of punctual brains... -Who wields a poem huger than the grave? from only Whom shall time no refuge keep though all the weird worlds must be opened?
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