E. E. Cummings

Six

Six - meaning Summary

Multiplicity Forming Unity

Cummings' short poem tracks a choreography of six presences in a dark room, repeatedly counted and recombined. Numbers, colors, sexes and elemental images (clouds, earth, fire, flowers) overlap in a circular, incantatory pattern that blurs individual identity into collective motion. The poem emphasizes rhythmic repetition and fusion: separate figures become parts of a single, shifting whole, suggesting unity through dance, sound and recurring numerical motifs.

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six are in a room's dark around) five (are all dancesing singdance all are three with faces made of cloud dancing and three singing with voices made of earth and six are in a room's dark around) five (six are in a room's) one is red and(six are in) four are white (three singdance six dancesing three all around around all clouds singing three and and three dancing earths three menandwomen three and all around all and all around five all around five around) five flowers five (six are in a room's dark) all five are one flowers five flowers and all one is fire

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