The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: e. e. cummings
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Art or artists
The Poem
E. E. Cummings’s sonnet now known as “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” was originally published without a title in a section of Cummings’s first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys (1923). That section, labeled “Chimneys,” is divided into three subsections: “Realities,” “Unrealities,” and “Actualities.” This particular poem, included in the first subsection, is an example of how Cummings uses a traditional verse form—the fourteen-line lyric known as a sonnet—and remakes it to suit his purpose of startling the...
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