Ecco a Letter Starting
Ecco a Letter Starting - meaning Summary
Invitation to Self-erasure
Cummings presents a playful, intimate mock-letter in which the speaker invites self-erasure into an addressed plural "we," offering to become "noone except yourselves." The poem mixes whimsical, fragmented imagery—an illiterate moon, a ghostly scribble, a misnamed chauvesouris—and dismisses grammatical correctness in favor of bodily, romantic surrender. It ends with a promise of shared place and time, a private forever marked by "silver shoes."
Read Complete Analysesecco a letter starting"dearest we" unsigned:remarkably brief but covering one complete miracle of nearest far "i cordially invite me to become noone except yourselves r s v p" she cannot read or write,la moon. Employs a very crazily how clownlike that this quickly ghost scribbling from there to where -name unless i'm mistaken chauvesouris- whose grammar is atrocious;but so what princess selene doesn't know a thing who's much too busy being her beautiful yes. The place is now let us accept (the time forever,and you'll wear your silver shoes
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