E. E. Cummings

Sometimes I Am Alive Because with

Sometimes I Am Alive Because with - meaning Summary

Merging Into a Single Instant

The poem describes a speaker’s intense physical and emotional fusion with a lover, portraying intimacy as a process that sharpens and transforms both bodies into a single, vivid moment. Sensual, vegetal and bodily imagery conveys gradual build-up to an ecstatic, nearly violent culmination where mouths, thighs and hips enact a converging, life-affirming instant. The tone mixes tenderness and urgency to register union as both gentle becoming and powerful release.

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sometimes i am alive because with me her alert treelike body sleeps which i will feel slowly sharpening becoming distinct with love slowly, who in my shoulder sinks sweetly teeth until we shall attain the Springsmelling intense large togethercoloured instant the moment pleasantly frightful when, her mouth suddenly rising, wholly begins with mine fiercely to fool (and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

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