Xaipe: 3
Xaipe: 3 - meaning Summary
Innocence and Luminous Love
The poem praises an intensely innocent, childlike figure or moment that feels both immediate and transcendent. Cummings frames this “flower of holiness” as a pilgrim from beyond the future, a newly remembered dream whose presence both ignites and cools perception. Love is rendered as a luminous shadow that makes death and separateness impossible, and the poem closes by linking this intimacy with a cosmic silence that precedes stars.
Read Complete Analysespurer than purest pure whisper of a whisper so(big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow —childfully serious flower of holiness a pilgrim from beyond the future’s future;and immediate like some newly remembered dream— flaming a cooly bell touches most mere until (eternally)with(now) luminous the shadow of love himself:who’s we —nor can you die or i and every world, before silence begins a star
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