E. E. Cummings

In Making Marjorie God Hurried

in making Marjorie god hurried a boy’s body on unsuspicious legs of girl. his left hand quarried the quartzlike face. his right slapped the amusing big vital vicious vegetable of her mouth. Upon the whole he suddenly clapped a tiny sunset of vermouth - colou hair. he put between her lips a moist mistake, whose fragrance hurls me into tears,as the dusty newness of her obsolete gaze begins to. lean a little against me, when for two dollars i fill her hips with boys and girls.

love free verse dark dreamlike
In Making Marjorie God Hurried - poem by - E. E. Cummings

In Making Marjorie God Hurried - meaning Summary

Awkward Erotic Creation

The speaker depicts the creation of Marjorie as a hasty, composite act: God assembles boyish and girlish features into a single body. The poem mixes eroticism, awkward physicality and sudden tenderness, producing a conflicted emotional response in the narrator—simultaneously moved and unsettled. The final line turns to commodification, suggesting Marjorie’s sexuality is shaped and exchanged, which complicates intimacy and identity in the scene.

Read Complete Analyses
default user
PoetryVerse just now

Feel free to be first to leave comment.

8/2200 - 0