The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls
The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls - meaning Summary
Satire of Genteel Conformity
Cummings satirizes a circle of well-to-do Cambridge women whose lives are comfortable, conventional, and inward-looking. The poem attacks their bland religiosity, tame literary tastes, and trivial pastimes—knitting, gossiping—while calling attention to their emptied interiority with the phrase "furnished souls." Rural or cosmic reality intrudes (the moon image), highlighting a contrast between lively natural forces and the ladies' complacent, cultured detachment.
Read Complete Analysesthe Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also, with the church's protestant blessings daughters, unscented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow,both dead, are invariably interested in so many things- at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles? perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D ....the Cambridge ladies do not care,above Cambridge if sometimes in its box of sky lavender and cornerless, the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
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