In a Middle of a Room
In a Middle of a Room - meaning Summary
Reality Blurred by Imagination
Cummings presents a fragmented scene where a man—called a suicide—clings to a Paper rose and oscillates between imagined spring and the impossibility of "real" flowers. The poem contrasts inner fantasy and outward detachment, mixing mundane intimacy with surreal images. Brief conversational lines and parenthetical fragments compress memory, desire, and denial into a tense progression that ends in a sudden, ambiguous act of violence, leaving reality unresolved.
Read Complete Analysesin a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing" (a moon swims out of a cloud a clock strikes midnight a finger pulls a trigger a bird flies into a mirror)
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