E. E. Cummings

Into the Strenuous Briefness

Into the Strenuous Briefness - meaning Summary

Joyful Acceptance of Transience

Cummings presents life as intensely brief yet vivid, a sequence of sensory episodes he welcomes with laughter and motion. The speaker moves through colored dawns, twilight, and departures, treating endings as part of a bright procession. Playful diction and a first-person voice turn mortality into a landscape of greetings, roses, and farewells, suggesting an affirmative, almost celebratory acceptance of transience rather than fear or sorrow.

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into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide. I into the big vermilion departure swim, sayingly; (Do you think?) the i do, world is probably made of roses & hello: (of solongs and, ashes)

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