Spring Omnipotent Goddess Thou
Spring Omnipotent Goddess Thou - meaning Summary
Spring as Sensual Force
Cummings personifies spring as an omnipotent, slovenly goddess whose bawdy, sensual energy invades parks, streets, homes, and bodies. The poem juxtaposes ceremonial address with earthy, comic detail—gum‑chewing youths, canaries in parlours, a whisky voice—showing spring as both creator and disrupter. Its imagery links sexual awakening, disorder, and renewal: spring’s messy physicality provokes desire and movement, making nature and city life tumble into animated, unruly life.
Read Complete Analysesspring omnipotent goddess Thou dost stuff parks with overgrown pimply chevaliers and gumchewing giggly damosels Thou dost persuade to serenade his lady the musical tom-cat Thou dost inveigle into crossing sidewalks the unwary june-bug and the frivolous angleworm Thou dost hang canary birds in parlour windows Spring slattern of seasons you have soggy legs and a muddy petticoat drowsy is your hair your eyes are sticky with dream and you have a sloppy body from being brought to bed of crocuses when you sing in your whisky voice the grass rises on the head of the earth and all the trees are put on edge spring of the excellent jostle of thy hips and the superior
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