There Is a Here and
There Is a Here and - meaning Summary
Fragile Boundaries of Being
Cummings presents a compressed, dreamlike vision of a place where distinctions between town, people, and element blur. Aging, weakness, and paradox recur: the town is so old the ocean wanders its streets, people are so feeble they sleep when sitting, and dark light makes mountains rise. The poem explores fragile existence and ontological uncertainty, suggesting identity dissolves into language’s contradictions and a cyclical relation between being and nonbeing.
Read Complete Analysesthere is a here and that here was a town(and the town is so aged the ocean wanders the streets are so ancient the houses enter the people are so feeble the feeble go to sleep if the people sit down) and this light is so dark the mountains grow up from the sky is so near the earth does not open her eyes(but the feeble are people the feeble are so wise the people remember being born) when and if nothing disappears they will disappear always who are filled with never are more than more is are mostly almost are feebler than feeble are fable who are less than these are least is who are am(beyond when behind where under un)
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