If There Are Any Heavens My Mother
If There Are Any Heavens My Mother - meaning Summary
Mother's Private Heaven
Cummings imagines a personal, intimate heaven created by and for his mother. He rejects fragile or conventional floral paradises, instead picturing a vivid garden of black-red roses where the father stands like a rose—deep, tall, and quietly reverent. The scene blends human and floral imagery so that faces and eyes become petals, culminating in a tender gesture as figures and garden together bow in sunlight, honoring love and presence.
Read Complete Analysesif there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over her silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with hands which whisper This is my beloved my (suddenly in sunlight he will bow, & the whole garden will bow)
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