E. E. Cummings

I Have Found What You Are Like

I Have Found What You Are Like - meaning Summary

Rain as Intimate Revelation

The poem compares the beloved to rain, using brisk, fragmentary images of wind, flowers, woods and birds to present a vivid, shifting presence. Natural motion and coolness convey both gentle power and consolation. Amid moments of expansive hush the speaker narrows to a private wish: closeness and a kiss. The language compresses sensation and desire, making nature a mirror for intimate feeling rather than a mere backdrop.

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i have found what you are like the rain (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club of the wind and swirled justly souls of flower strike the air in utterable coolness deeds of gren thrilling light with thinned newfragile yellows lurch and press --in the woods which stutter and sing And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms;but i should rather than anything have(almost when hugeness will shut quietly)almost, your kiss

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