Of This Wilting Wall the Colour Drub
Of This Wilting Wall the Colour Drub - meaning Summary
Decay in Domestic Morning
The poem presents a compressed, sensory scene of urban domestic decay at morning. Cummings catalogues wilting paint, sour sunbeams, a disintegrating cigar, a pale dog and a "putrid window" to evoke rot and slackness. Rather than simple disgust, the speaker is fascinated by a woman at the window whose "still-born smile" and delicate scorn embody the tragic comedy of decline within everyday life.
Read Complete Analysesof this wilting wall the colour drub souring sunbeams,of a foetal fragrance to rickety unclosed blinds inslants peregrinate,a cigar-stub disintegrates,above,underdrawers club the faintly sweating air with pinkness, one pale dog behind a slopcaked shrub painstakingly utters a slippery mess, a star sleepily,feebly,scratches the sore of morning. But i am interested more intricately in the delicate scorn with which in a putrid window every day almost leans a lady whose still-born smile involves the comedy of decay,
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