Xaipe: 5
Xaipe: 5 - meaning Summary
Multiplicity of Perception
Cummings presents a brief, dialogic meditation on perception and reality. Speakers debate whether worlds are countless, like particles of dark, or like flowers that open and close. They suggest human loudness and foolishness prevent true understanding, while silence and wisdom would reveal worlds differently. The poem ends by proposing that flowers—more starlike than eyes—embody realities that mere imagined worlds only approximate.
Read Complete Analysesswim so now million many worlds in each least less than particle of perfect dark— how should a loudness called mankind unteach whole infinite the who of life’s life(hark what silence)?” “Worlds? o no:i’m certain they’re (look again)flowers.” “Don’t worlds open and worlds close?” “Worlds do, but differently;or as if worlds wanted us to understand they’d never close(and open)if that fool called everyone(or you or i)were wise.” “You mean worlds may have better luck, some day?” “Or worse!poor worlds;i mean they’re possible —but” lifting “flowers” more all stars than eyes “only are quite what worlds merely might be
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