E. E. Cummings

Dead Every Enormous Piece

Dead Every Enormous Piece - meaning Summary

Nonsense Versus Individual Pity

Cummings contrasts abstract, grand systems and long historical scales with the moral reality of one living person. The poem dismisses sweeping "nonsense"—states, centuries, or theoretical totals—as trivial when set against the immediate, painful existence of an individual who elicits pity. It argues for attention to present human suffering rather than consolation by vast, impersonal measures of time or supposed principles.

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dead every enourmous piece of nonsense which itself must call a state submicroscopic is- compared with pitying terrible some alive individual ten centuries of original soon or make it ten times ten are more than not entitled to complain -plunged in eternal now if who're by the five nevers of a lear

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