E. E. Cummings

Dying Is Fine - but Death

Dying Is Fine - but Death - meaning Summary

Dying Versus Death

The poem contrasts the gentle, natural act of dying with the harsh, institutional idea of Death. Cummings praises dying as miraculous, lively, and fitting, while calling Death scientific, artificial, legal, and evil. The speaker thanks God for dying and asks life to forgive the ‘‘sin’’ of Death, framing mortality as an intimate, human event undermined by abstracted, bureaucratic conceptions of death.

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dying is fine but Death? o baby i wouldn't like Death if Death were good:for when(instead of stopping to think)you begin to feel of it,dying 's miraculous why?be cause dying is perfectly natural;perfectly putting it mildly lively(but Death is strictly scientific & artificial & evil & legal) we thank thee god almighty for dying (forgive us,o life!the sin of Death

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