E. E. Cummings

Whereas by Dark Really Released

Whereas by Dark Really Released - meaning Summary

Desire and Social Disguise

The poem contrasts a woman’s private, intense sexuality with her cool, socially appropriate daytime persona. The speaker observes her nocturnal passion as fierce, embodied, and almost violent, then notes how by day she adopts a controlled half-smile and an indifferent perfume that separates her from others. It explores tension between private desire and public decorum, and the distance created by social performance.

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whereas by dark really released,the modern flame of her indomitable body uses a careful fierceness.  Her lips study my head gripping for a decision:burn the terrific fingers which grapple and joke on my passionate anatomy oh yes!  Large legs pinch,toes choke— hair-thin strands of magic agony ….by day this lady in her limousine oozes in fashionable traffic,just a halfsmile (for society’s sweet sake) in the not too frail lips almost discussed; between her and ourselves a nearly-opaque perfume disinterestedly obscene.

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