dying is fine)but Death... (6) Analysis

Author: poem of e.e. cummings Type: poem Views: 19

dying is fine)but Death



?o

baby

i



wouldn't like



Death if Death

were

good:for



when(instead of stopping to think)you



begin to feel of it,dying

's miraculous

why?be



cause dying is



perfectly natural;perfectly

putting

it mildly lively(but



Death



is strictly

scientific

& artificial &



evil & legal)



we thank thee

god

almighty for dying

(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death

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Important to the contrast between dying and Death are the tenses: dying appears to be our present, nature inclination towards the physical grave even during life, whereas Death is left to others to deal with legally and other wise. Also, Death is personified as something artificially induced or an evil being that science is working against so that mankind can avoid it. Death could also be viewed as mankind's sin against life, which is what Christ calls himself in John 14:6; Christ Jesus, being of the almighty God that the speak appeals to, would make a reasonable receptor of this poem.

| Posted on 2009-11-19 | by a guest

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Substitute living for dying. We begin to die the moment we are born. it is a natural ending to life.

| Posted on 2009-10-20 | by a guest

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I think this poem is saying that the poet is saying that Death is worse than dying. Dying is more peaceful and Death is more like, evil.

| Posted on 2009-05-27 | by a guest

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It seems like maybe the writer's talking about how morbid, semi-suicidal thoughts are self-indulgent and wrong. Death itself is natural, but to long for death is unnatural, it is the sin of being ungrateful for life. In the parentheses, the writer revels in the wrongfulness, in the morbidity. He's sort of being a goth. What self-respecting goth would like death if death were good. He wants to like the unlikable.
The poem is so nebulous though, it leaves so many interpretations in play.

| Posted on 2009-01-30 | by a guest

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what is the tone of this poem and the poetic devices used does anybody know?.

| Posted on 2009-01-13 | by a guest

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I don't really get the first part but I get the message of how death is mourned but it is natural and hey if your luckey you go to a better place

| Posted on 2008-11-13 | by a guest

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I think this poem is beautiful. We start dying the day we're born (which is why dying is "lively"). The word 'dying' in our culture has a bad connotation because usually people associate it with pain or sadness. But dying isn't sad, it's life. Death is sad.

| Posted on 2008-04-13 | by a guest

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i totally agree in this poem. death is (not that i would know.) legal and strict! but i believe dying must bbe peaceful. why? well because you are just giving eternal rest to your overused body.

| Posted on 2008-03-18 | by a guest

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