Humanity i love you

                                                  

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My name is Mariana Moreira Neves, a student from school CEFET-MG.
My goal with this project is to show the readers of American poetry blog, with its linguistic aspects for its construction.


Author: Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly abbreviated as e. e. Cummings, in lowercase, as signed and published poet. He was a poet, painter, essayist and American playwright.

"Humanity i love you"

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you

by e. e. cummings

Analysis of poetry:

This poem reflects Cummings's connection with the war. It is quite cynical in nature, describing his disgust with classes in society and obviously, humanity in general. "because you would rather black the boots of / success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain" Cummings uses material metaphors to stress the selfishness of humanity. The mental image from "whose soul dangles from his pocket watch-chain" is quite literal at first. The reader imagines an aristocrat with ten or twenty commoners hanging from his chain. Cummings was referring to the thoughtlessness of the over-fortunate. The last four lines of the poem are more directly what he was trying to say. "Humanity / i hate you" .