E. E. Cummings

Mr Youse Needn't Be So Spry

Mr Youse Needn't Be So Spry - meaning Summary

Preference Over Highbrow Art

The speaker rejects highbrow artistic debate and asserts a plain, sensual preference: embodied pleasure and a living, naked woman outrank abstract ideas or idealized art. Using colloquial voice and comic bluntness, the poem contrasts theory with bodily experience and celebrates immediate, physical joy over statuesque ideals. It presents personal taste as decisive rather than apologetic, privileging the tangible and erotic over intellectualized aesthetics.

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mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

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