My Smallheaded Pearshaped
My Smallheaded Pearshaped - meaning Summary
Fragmented Sensual Portrait
Cummings presents a fragmented, sensual portrait of a woman seen as a composite of animal and cultural images. The speaker breaks the body into contrasted parts: a delicate upper half that twitters and coils like a snake, and heavy, elephantine legs that convey gravity and beauty. The poem mixes erotic observation with exoticized references to Africa and India, conveying fascination through vivid, condensed snapshots rather than a single coherent narrative.
Read Complete Analysesmy smallheaded pearshaped lady in gluey twilight moving,suddenly is three animals. The minute waist continually with an African gesture utters a frivolous intense half of Girl which(like some floating snake upon itself always and slowly which upward certainly is pouring)emits a pose :to twitter wickedly whereas the big and firm legs moving solemnly like careful and furious and beautiful elephants (mingled in whispering thickly smooth thighs thinkingly) remind me of Woman and how between her hips India is.
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