E. E. Cummings

Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand

Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand - meaning Summary

Fragile Arrival of Spring

Cummings' poem compares spring to a tentative, careful hand that appears from 'Nowhere' to rearrange a window—placing small new and familiar things—while people watch. The image emphasizes subtle, almost surgical renewal: incremental shifts, fractions of flowers and inches of air, transforming the scene without force. The tone is gentle and intimate, presenting seasonal change as delicate, deliberate, and quietly miraculous.

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Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything.

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