E. E. Cummings

Perhaps It Is to Feel Strike

Perhaps It Is to Feel Strike - meaning Summary

Desire Seeking Union

The poem presents a speaker articulating longing and the tentative hope of intimate union with a young woman. He imagines desire as both physical and mental—a striking sensuousness and the catching of her mind—arriving after solitary travel through varied experiences. The speaker asks for pity if overheard, admitting vulnerability and exhaustion from his journey through "furious" and peaceful ways, ultimately attributing his appeal to her beauty.

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perhaps it is to feel strike the silver fish of her nakedness with fins sharply pleasant,my youth has travelled toward her these years or to snare the timid like of her mind to my mind that i am come by little countries to the yes of her youth. And if somebody hears what i say—let him be pitiful: because I’ve travelled all alone through the forest of wonderful, and that my feet have surely known the furious ways and the peaceful, and because she is beautiful

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