As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood - meaning Summary
Paradox and Hopeful Persistence
Cummings offers a series of improbable reversals and comparisons to argue that repetition, endurance, and willing perception can remake reality. The poem lists paradoxical images—molehills from mountains, seeing as blind, common as rare—then insists that long enough and just so long things may come true. It ends by privileging love and imaginative affirmation over literal fact: love is the sky and the speaker commits to it despite uncertainty.
Read Complete Analysesas freedom is a breakfastfood or truth can live with right and wrong or molehills are from mountains made -long enough and just so long will being pay the rent of seem and genius please the talentgang and water most encourage flame as hatracks into peachtrees grow or hopes dance best on bald men's hair and every finger is a toe and any courage is a fear -long enough and just so long will the impure think all things pure and hornets wail by children stung or as the seeing are the blind and robins never welcome spring nor flatfolk prove their world is round nor dingsters die at break of dong and common's rare and millstones float -long enough and just so long tomorrow will not be too late worms are the words but joy's the voice down shall go which and up come who breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs deeds cannot dream what dreams can do -time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough
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