Nick Capozzoli (1/14/2007 7:10:00 PM)
Despite its obscurantist method, this seems to be a great poem. It is highly suggestive, and seems to waver and give glimses of a precise meaning in the way that night vision allows you to see things without looking directly at them. When you look directly, what you saw obliquely disappears. I like the way that cummings has used phrases that evoke our collective American memory, e.g. Paul Revere's 'one if by land and two if by sea, ' etc. This is a fine example of poetic incantation and evocation. |
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