E. E. Cummings

I Go to This Window

I Go to This Window - meaning Summary

Twilight Becomes Inward Plunge

A speaker stands at a window at twilight, seeing a thin new moon and feeling inadequate compared with an intense beloved who inhabits the mind. Initial fear and self-criticism give way to clarity and a knowing smile as the beloved (or moon) sharpens into presence. The poem ends with a sudden inward plunge of expansive, overwhelming dreams, suggesting a collapse of outer observation into inward imaginative experience.

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i go to this window just as day dissolves when it is twilight(and looking up in fear i see the new moon thinner than a hair) making me feel how myself has been coarse and dull compared with you, silently who are and cling to my mind always But now she sharpens and becomes crisper until i smile with knowing -and all about herself the sprouting largest final air plunges inward with hurled downward thousands of enormous dreams

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