E. E. Cummings

Will Suddenly Trees Leap from Winter and Will

Will Suddenly Trees Leap from Winter and Will - meaning Summary

Yearning for Spring Renewal

The poem expresses urgent longing for renewal and human connection as winter threatens stillness. The speaker imagines trees and spring emerging, and recalls the "stabbing music" of a beloved youth wounded yet joined to the city. They oscillate between hopeful images of new leaves and sharp awakening and darker possibilities of lifeless, grey stasis. The tone is tense and uncertain, probing whether change will revive fleshly intimacy or dissolve into pulseless silence.

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will suddenly trees leap from winter and will the stabbing music of your white youth wounded by my arms’ bothness (say a twilight lifting the fragile skill of new leaves’ voices,and sharp lips of spring simply joining with the wonderless city’s sublime cheap distinct mouth) do the exact human comely thing? (or will the fleshless moments go and go across this dirtied pane where softly preys the grey and perpendicular Always— or possibly there drift a pulseless blur of paleness; the unswift mouths of snow insignificantly whisper….

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