E. E. Cummings

Let’s Live Suddenly Without Thinking

Let’s Live Suddenly Without Thinking - meaning Summary

Spontaneity Against Thought

The poem urges an abrupt, uncalculated surrender to lived experience. Addressing a companion, the speaker contrasts deliberate thought with immediate sensory life under trees, beside a stream, and beneath a moon. Strange, kinetic images—light that "kills," pruning nothing, and arrows of time—suggest desire and risk alongside silence and love. The tone mixes impulsive command and private uncertainty, proposing spontaneity as a way to make the present vivid and intimate.

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let’s live suddenly without thinking under honest trees, a stream does.the brain of cleverly-crinkling -water pursues the angry dream of the shore. By midnight, a moon scratches the skin of the organised hills an edged nothing begins to prune let’s live like the light that kills and let’s as silence, because Whirl’s after all: (after me)love,and after you. I occasionally feel vague how vague idon’t know tenuous Now- spears and The Then-arrows making do our mouths something red,something tall

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