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O Sweet Spontaneous

Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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O Sweet Spontaneous

Cummings' poem "O sweet spontaneous" uses unconventional formatting and word choice to describe how religion, philosophy, and science have analyzed and affected nature's beauty. The poem has free verse with alliteration and assonance. Adjectives like "sweet" and "spontaneous" describe the earth, while verbs like "pinched" and "prodded" portray how humanity mistreats nature. Through deviations from normal structure and language, the poet conveys love for nature and humanity's responsibility for its destruction.

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The significance of the earth

through modern and unique style


A stylistic analysis of E.E.Cummings’ poem
“ O sweet spontaneous”

Melinda
Miftari
beauty      how
O sweet spontaneous
often have religions taken

earth how often have thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and
the
 

doting buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive

gods

            fingers of          (but

true
prurient philosophers pinched
 

and to the incomparable

couch of death thy


poked
rhythmic
  lover

thee              thou answerest

,has the naughty thumb  


them only with

of science prodded  

                              spring)
thy
INTRODUCTION

In this poem, Cummings has used


irregular sentence structure,
deviations, and unique word choice
to explain that the beauty of nature
is analyzed and affected by
theology, science, and philosophy.
Graphological deviation

 Unusual line breaks

 Only one capital letter, one


comma, and one period

 Incorrect use of parenthesis


Phonological level

 Poem is written in free verse, it


does not have any particular
rhyme scheme
 Alliteration is used in “ O sweet
spontaneous”, which gives us
sense of amazement
 Assonance is used in presenting
a dark picture of humanity
Lexical level
 Poet has used adjectives sweet
and spontaneous to describe the
earth

 Poet has used verbs like


pinched, poked, prodded,
squeezing, and buffeting to
describe the mistreatment of the
earth
CONCLUSION
 With the usage of deviations,
unique sentence structure, and
various stylistic devices, the poet
has managed to convey his love for
mother nature and to describe how
human kind is responsible for the
destruction of nature and its beauty.
1. What are the images that make
this poem vivid?
2. Why do you think the poet uses
the word spontaneous to
describe the earth?

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