Now Does Our World Descend
Now Does Our World Descend - meaning Summary
Collapse and Reluctant Renewal
Cummings charts a communal collapse into meaninglessness and moral inversion: certainties erode, friends become enemies, action feels futile and truth blurs. The speaker cycles through mandated responses—lament, endurance, concealment, despair—each a prescribed reaction to the world’s decline. Yet the closing stanza reverses tone as, from the decay and blankness, the soul unexpectedly rises to sing, suggesting a fragile, inward renewal amid apparent annihilation.
Read Complete Analysesnow does our world descend the path to nothingness (cruel now cancels kind; friends turn to enemies) therefore lament,my dream and don a doer's doom create is now contrive; imagined,merely know (freedom:what makes a slave) therefore,my life,lie down and more by most endure all that you never were hide,poor dishonoured mind who thought yourself so wise; and much could understand concerning no and yes: if they've become the same it's time you unbecame where climbing was and bright is darkness and to fall (now wrong's the only right since brave are cowards all) therefore despair,my heart and die into the dirt but from this endless end of briefer each our bliss-- where seeing eyes go blind (where lips forget to kiss) where everything's nothing --arise,my soul;and sing
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