E. E. Cummings

Why Must Itself Up Every of a Park

Why Must Itself Up Every of a Park - meaning Summary

Satire of False Freedom

Cummings satirizes official rhetoric and hollow public ceremonies that pretend to honor bravery while suppressing dissent. The poem mocks slogans, quoted authorities, and appeals to necessity or reason that justify killing and erase personal choice. Irony and colloquial voice expose how institutions manufacture consent and conflate patriotism with obedience. The final ironic question undercuts any claim to real freedom, presenting civic display as theatrical rather than liberating.

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why must itself up every of a park anus stick some quote statue unquote to prove that a hero equals any jerk who was afraid to dare to answer “no”? quote citizens unquote might otherwise forget(to err is human;to forgive divine)that if the quote state unquote says “kill” killing is an act of christian love. “Nothing” in 1944 AD “can stand against the argument of mil itary necessity”(generalissimo e) and echo answers “there is no appeal from reason”(freud)—you pays your money and you doesn’t take your choice.  Ain’t freedom grand

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