Jehovah Buried, Satan Dead,
Jehovah Buried, Satan Dead, - meaning Summary
Moral Bankruptcy and Courage
Cummings rails against modern complacency, hypocrisy, and mechanized sameness. The poem satirizes worship of speed, gadgets, celebrity and progress, showing moral numbness where bad is mistaken for good and language and identity are degraded. Repeatedly asking "who dares to call himself a man?" it challenges readers to reclaim moral courage. The closing appeal to King Christ suggests only transcendent fidelity can navigate the corrupt, leaking world the speaker depicts.
Read Complete AnalysesJehovah buried,Satan dead, do fearers worship Much and Quick; badness not being felt as bad, itself thinks goodness what is meek; obey says toc,submit says tic, Eternity's a Five Year Plan: if Joy with Pain shall hand in hock who dares to call himself a man? go dreamless knaves on Shadows fed, your Harry's Tom,your Tom is Dick; while Gadgets murder squack and add, the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments,both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span: to kiss the mike if Jew turn kike who dares to call himself a man? loudly for Truth have liars pled,click; where Boobs are holy,poets mad, illustrious punks of Progress shriek; when Souls are outlawed,Hearts are sick, Hearts being sick,Minds nothing can: if Hate's a game and Love's a fuck who dares to call himself a man? King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dares to call Himself a man.
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