In Time of Daffodils
In Time of Daffodils - meaning Summary
Remembering Over Forgetting
Cummings contrasts forgetting intellectual or literal concerns with remembering the experiential or emotional acts that give life meaning. Across flowers—daffodils, lilacs, roses—he urges growth, dreaming, affirmation, and seeking over analysis or possession. Each stanza pairs a practical verb to forget with a spiritual or active verb to remember. The closing couplet frames a final paradox: in eventual mystery accept personal absence while asking to be remembered.
Read Complete Analysesin time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember me
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