When Life Is Quite Through with
When Life Is Quite Through with - meaning Summary
Quiet Cycles of Ending
The poem reflects calmly on endings and what continues after human absence. Cummings presents small natural scenes—a swallow finishing its flight, a bee dozing on poppies, a buried head beneath oaks and roses—to suggest continuity, sleep, and gentle passing rather than dramatic loss. Time and nature carry on, enfolding grief and love into ongoing seasonal cycles that render death part of a larger, peaceful pattern.
Read Complete Analyseswhen life is quite through with and leaves say alas, much is to do for the swallow,that closes a flight in the blue; when love's had his tears out, perhaps shall pass a million years (while a bee dozes on the poppies,the dears; when all's done and said,and under the grass lies her head by oaks and roses deliberated.)
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