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Technology, usually thought of as beneficial to mankind, slowly destroys the society that it has helped to improve. In essence, no matter what the world has gained through destruction and bloodshed can never replace the loss it will suffer in the absence of compassion.

He mocks what he believes society has become- a world in which each person is selfish and self- absorbed. If so, Cummings believes that the wind will turn the other way; soon all kings will be beggars and queens, seems.

The lives lost in the war will prove futile and the pillars that support society will crumble Kidder Understanding the importance of creating a specific atmosphere in which to absorb his audience, Cummings uses deliberate styles of syntax to evoke adamant responses to his daring questions and predictions about the end of the world. To me, this poem is about an apocalypse of pure winter. A great wind of destruction destroys the stars, covers the earth with snow, makes the sun appear bloody by blowing dead, fallen autumn leaves all over the place, causing chaos and destruction.

Because of all this, humanity is forced to be true to its own nature in order to survive — royalty is no better, but in fact worse than regular people, friends are enemies when the tides have turned, etc. However, with all the death will emerge survivors who will be able to stay alive in the midst of all the dying. That is my humble interpretation of the poem, but seriously? Your email address will not be published. Do you have any comments, criticism, paraphrasis or analysis of this poem that you feel would assist other visitors in understanding the meaning or the theme of this poem by e.

If accepted, your analysis will be added to this page of American Poems. Together we can build a wealth of information, but it will take some discipline and determination. Blow king to beggar and queen to seem blow friend to fiend: blow space to time -when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man what if a keen of a lean wind flays screaming hills with sleet and snow: strangles valleys by ropes of things and stifles forests in white ago? February 16, at pm.

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