Hist Whist
Hist Whist - meaning Summary
Playful Menace in Miniature
Cummings' short poem stages a playful, childlike scene of tiny supernatural creatures—ghosts, witches, goblins, mousies—skittering and hiding. The language mimics movement with clipped exclamations and repeated fragments, building momentum until a warning about an old woman with a wart culminates in the startling image of a "green dancing devil." The poem balances whimsy and menace, ending in an exuberant, unsettling cry.
Read Complete Analyseshist whist little ghostthings tip—toe twinkle—toe little twitchy witches and tingling goblins hob—a—nob hob—a—nob little hoppy happy toad in tweeds tweeds little itchy mousies with scuttling eyes rustle and run and hidehidehide whisk whisk look out for the old woman with the wart on her nose what she’ll do to yer nobody knows for she knows the devil ooch the devil ouch the devil ach the great green dancing devil devil devil devil wheeEEE
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