E. E. Cummings

Yonder Deadfromtheneckup Graduate

Yonder Deadfromtheneckup Graduate - meaning Summary

Appearances and Inner Life

The poem sketchedly criticizes a person described as a "deadfromtheneckup graduate" who poses "picturesque" but is inwardly vacant. The speaker sees this figure as misled by an "erroneous impression"—a belief in a kind of rebirth or vitality suggested by the Latin word nascitur ("is born"). The short piece contrasts surface appearance with a lack of inner life and ironic self-deception.

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yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate of a somewhat obscure to be sure university spends her time looking picturesque under the as it happens quite erroneous impression that he nascitur

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