E. E. Cummings

Writhe and

Writhe and - meaning Summary

Beauty Amid Urban Collapse

The poem depicts a city’s violent unmaking with stark, tactile verbs that evoke tearing, splintering and collapse. These brutal images are juxtaposed with a calm, almost reverent moment of sunset, turning destruction into a strange, mournful beauty. The city is personified as a young figure entering a "becoming garden of her agony," suggesting transformation through trauma and a fragile, ambiguous intersection of ruin and aesthetic transfiguration.

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writhe and gape of tortured perspective rasp and graze of splintered normality crackle and sag of planes          clamors of collision collapse         As peacefully, lifted into the awful beauty of sunset the young city putting off dimension with a blush enters the becoming garden of her agony

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