E. E. Cummings

Your Little Voice

Your Little Voice - meaning Summary

Voice as Ecstatic Catalyst

The poem describes the speaker’s sudden, overwhelming joy when hearing a beloved’s voice. The sound triggers vivid, childlike imagery—dancing flowers, twinkling stars, and a comic moon—and lifts the speaker into ecstatic motion. The voice dissolves ordinary limits, surmounting time, tide, and death, and provokes tears of delight. It presents vocal contact as a small, potent event that transforms perception and summons rapture.

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your little voice Over the wires came leaping and i felt suddenly dizzy With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers wee skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes or twinkling over to my side Looked up with impertinently exquisite faces floating hands were laid upon me I was whirled and tossed into delicious dancing up Up with the pale important stars and the Humorous moon dear girl How i was crazy how i cried when i heard over time and tide and death leaping Sweetly your voice

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