E. E. Cummings

Nobody Loved This

Nobody Loved This - meaning Summary

Alienation and Failed Intimacy

Cummings’ short poem presents a fragmented, anguished portrait of a person who is unseen and unloved. Images of a face embedded in rock, a “snake” voice, and awkward limbs convey isolation, bodily dislocation, and difficulty connecting. Repeated negations emphasize perpetual rejection and an inability to receive or express affection. The poem registers loneliness as an embodied, persistent condition rather than a momentary feeling.

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nobody loved this he)with its of eye stuck into a rock of forehead.No body loved big that quick sharp thick snake of a voice these root like legs or feethands; nobody ever could ever had love loved whose his climbing shoulders queerly twilight :never,no (body. Nothing

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