Here's to Opening and Upward
Here's to Opening and Upward - meaning Summary
Celebration of Renewal and Risk
Cummings celebrates renewal, growth, and ecstatic feeling. The speaker toasts budding life, intimate love, and sensory experience, pairing natural imagery (leaves, rain, mountains, ocean) with a rejection of caution and rationalizing thought. The poem urges embrace of joy, laughter, and intoxicated feeling while honoring an elusive creative or generative force that shapes worlds. Its tone is affirmative, exuberant, and defiantly anti-analytic.
Read Complete Analyseshere's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap and to your(in my arms flowering so new) self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain and here's to silent certainly mountains;and to a disappearing poet of always,snow and to morning;and to morning's beautiful friend twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness) here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon
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