A Connotation of Infinity
A Connotation of Infinity - meaning Summary
Infinity Sharpens the Night
The poem presents a night when awareness of infinity intensifies ordinary experience, making mortal lives feel both small and luminous. Cummings contrasts temporal fragility and human folly with a vast, beckoning beyond that feels intimate and knowable. The sea, imagined as smiling through silent distances, embodies this sublime reach. Overall the poem explores longing, humility, and a reverent sense that eternity sharpens and ennobles the present moment.
Read Complete Analysesa connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles
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