Of Ever-ever Land I Speak
Of Ever-ever Land I Speak - meaning Summary
Utopian Satire of Sameness
Cummings presents a mock-utopia called Ever-Ever Land to expose the absurdity of enforced sameness. The poem satirically rejects soul, heaven, love, and moral complexity in favor of measured, safe uniformity. Repeated refrains underline how conformity flattens distinctions and even twists values into crude, literal clichés. The tone mixes playful nursery rhyme rhythms with biting irony, making the imagined land a critique of social and ideological homogeneity.
Read Complete Analyses(of Ever-Ever Land i speak sweet morons gather roun' who does not dare to stand or sit may take it lying down) down with the human soul and anything else uncanned for everyone carries canopeners in Ever-Ever Land (for Ever-Ever Land is a place that's as simple as simple can be and was built that way on purpose by simple people like we) down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us (and Ever-Ever Land is a place that's measured and safe and known where it's lucky to be unlucky and the hitler lies down with the cohn) down above all with love and everything perverse or which makes some feel more better when all ought to feel less worse (but only sameness is normal in Ever-Ever Land for a bad cigar is a woman but a gland is only a gland)
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