E. E. Cummings

The Sky a Silver

The Sky a Silver - meaning Summary

Spring's Uneasy Accidental Beauty

Cummings presents a brief scene of spring that shifts from a composed, musical image of the sky to a chaotic, pedestrian display of blooming. The poem moves from an aesthetic notion of April’s "correct fingers" resolving into clichéd jewels to a clumsy moth whose awkward flight—bumping against trees, houses, and finally the river—suggests nature’s fragile, accidental beauty and the interplay of artifice and disorder.

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the sky a silver dissonance by the correct fingers of April resolved into a clutter of trite jewels now like a moth with stumbling wings flutters and flops along the grass collides with trees and houses and finally, butts into the river

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