my father moved through dooms of love (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: e. e. cummings
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Love or romance, Nature, Self, Emotions, Fear, Fathers, Good and evil, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Joy or sorrow, Night
The Poem
E. E. Cummings’s “my father moved through dooms of love” is an elegy in seventeen four-line stanzas. The poem commemorates Cummings’s own father, the Reverend Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister and Harvard University professor.
The poem is written in the first person. Unlike much of Cummings’s love poetry, in which the speaker addresses his beloved while the reader overhears, in this poem the speaker addresses the reader directly. Cummings offers the example of his father’s life for the reader to consider and closes the poem with the moral of the...
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