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==Text== | ==Text== | ||
| − | + | pity this busy monster, manunkind,<br> | |
| − | pity this busy monster, manunkind, | + | <br> |
| − | + | not. Progress is a comfortable disease:<br> | |
| − | + | your victim (death and life safely beyond)<br> | |
| − | not. Progress is a comfortable disease: | + | <br> |
| − | + | plays with the bigness of his littleness<br> | |
| − | your victim (death and life safely beyond) | + | --- electrons deify one razorblade<br> |
| − | + | into a mountainrange; lenses extend<br> | |
| − | + | unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish<br> | |
| − | plays with the bigness of his littleness | + | returns on its unself.<br> |
| − | + | ::::: A world of made<br> | |
| − | --- electrons deify one razorblade | + | is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh<br> |
| − | + | <br> | |
| − | into a mountainrange; lenses extend | + | and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this<br> |
| − | + | fine specimen of hypermagical<br> | |
| − | unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish | + | <br> |
| − | + | ultraomnipotence. We doctors know<br> | |
| − | returns on its unself. | + | <br> |
| − | + | a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell<br> | |
| − | ::::: A world of made | + | of a good universe next door; let's go<br> |
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| − | is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh | + | |
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| − | and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this | + | |
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| − | fine specimen of hypermagical | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | ultraomnipotence. We doctors know | + | |
| − | + | ||
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| − | a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell | + | |
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| − | of a good universe next door; let's go | + | |
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==Critical Edition== | ==Critical Edition== | ||
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e.e. cummings. "pity this busy monster, manunkind [1944]." ''Poems 1923-1954. First Complete Edition''. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 397. | e.e. cummings. "pity this busy monster, manunkind [1944]." ''Poems 1923-1954. First Complete Edition''. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 397. | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
| + | *Yaron, Iris and Routledge, Michael (translator). "Hermetism in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings: An Analysis of Three Obscure Poems." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, 11 (2002 Oct), pp. 107-19. | ||
| + | *Eastwood, David R. "Poetry Hypotheses." Hypotheses: Neo-Aristotelian Analysis, 3 (1992 Fall), pp. 6-8. | ||
| + | *Slotkin, Alan R. "The Negative Aspect of Homo Faber: A Reading of E.E. Cummings' 'pity this busy monster, manunkind'." Language of Poems, 2:2 (1973), pp. 34-41. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| + | *[http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/57.html The Wondering Minstrels] | ||
| + | [[Category:20th century|1944]] | ||
[[Category:1940s|1944]] | [[Category:1940s|1944]] | ||
[[Category:By author|Cummings, Edward Estlin]] | [[Category:By author|Cummings, Edward Estlin]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:47, 8 April 2008
Text
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
- A world of made
- A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
Critical Edition
e.e. cummings. "pity this busy monster, manunkind [1944]." Poems 1923-1954. First Complete Edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 397.
Further Reading
- Yaron, Iris and Routledge, Michael (translator). "Hermetism in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings: An Analysis of Three Obscure Poems." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, 11 (2002 Oct), pp. 107-19.
- Eastwood, David R. "Poetry Hypotheses." Hypotheses: Neo-Aristotelian Analysis, 3 (1992 Fall), pp. 6-8.
- Slotkin, Alan R. "The Negative Aspect of Homo Faber: A Reading of E.E. Cummings' 'pity this busy monster, manunkind'." Language of Poems, 2:2 (1973), pp. 34-41.
