E. E. Cummings

I Will Be

I Will Be - meaning Summary

Anticipation of Intimate Union

The poem voices a speaker’s vow to inhabit and follow a beloved, imagining their body as a street of motion and sensation. Fragmented, breathy lines map kisses, touching, music, and fluttering leaves into a kinetic landscape of desire. Joyous images of pigeons, mandolins, sunlight and sudden black wheels shift toward twilight anticipation. The ending holds a near-certain meeting—intimacy approached with eager, fragmented longing.

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i will be M o ving in the Street of her bodyfee 1 inga ro undMe the traffic of lovely;muscles-sinke x p i r i n    g S uddeni Y         totouch the curvedship of Her- ….kiss      her:hands will play on,mE as dea d tunes OR s-crap p-y lea Ves flut te rin g from Hideous trees or Maybe Mandolins 1 oo k- pigeons fly ingand whee(:are,SpRiN,k,LiNg an in-stant with sunLight then)!- ing all go BlacK wh-eel-ing oh ver mYveRylitTle street where you will come, at twi li ght s(oon & there’s a             m oo )n.

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