Picasso
Picasso - meaning Summary
Art as Violent Creation
Cummings addresses Picasso as a forceful maker whose work distorts and strips things to reveal deeper form. The poem uses visceral, noisy imagery—lungs, axes, lumbering—to suggest violent creative energy that chops away prettiness and comfortable illusion. Out of apparent nothingness his art produces strange, compressed objects and “solid screams” that nonetheless yield truthful shape. The voice admires Picasso’s ability to hew authenticity from the living mass of ego and appearance.
Read Complete AnalysesPicasso you give us Things which bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind you make us shrill presents always shut in the sumptuous screech of simplicity (out of the black unbunged Something gushes vaguely a squeak of planes or between squeals of Nothing grabbed with circular shrieking tightness solid screams whisper.) Lumberman of The Distinct your brain's axe only chops hugest inherent Trees of Ego,from whose living and biggest bodies lopped of every prettiness you hew form truly
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