E. E. Cummings

The Hills

The Hills - meaning Summary

Twilight as Passionate Offering

The poem imagines evening as a theatrical shift: daytime’s loud, golden clamor gives way to a purple, poetic twilight that "exhales a red soul into the dark." The speaker then addresses a "duneyed master," inviting this figure into the heart to take a perfect rose. The final phrase, "with killing hands," complicates the offering, suggesting surrender to love’s beauty that also risks harm or destruction.

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the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of day tortured in gold,which presently crumpled collapses exhaling a red soul into the dark so duneyed master enter the sweet gates of my heart and take the rose, which perfect is With killing hands

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