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Within I Will Wade Out
Within I Will Wade Out, a poem by E.E. Cummings’, the speaker seems to emote uncertainty in his actions and decision about the future. Cummings's poem is a lot about deciding withholds a decision of what type of person and what type of life one wants to live. To the speaker this life is one of spontaneity that follows the movement of nature. In the physical structure of the poem the lines are indented in and out like the waves of the ocean. This water represents nature, though the flowers are being burning and killed. The speaker wants to “dash against the darkness” while the darkness blinds him from the future and confuses him about how he will discover himself among the water and burning flowers.

There are a few instances of very visual and oxymoronic objects within this essay. The “burning flowers” show the destruction of beauty also showing the destruction of nature. A flower is a very delicate and gentle object, however, burning is a very violent, strong, and destructive action and this embodies the modern views of not taking care of nature. Leading to the end of nature and the start of the industrialization era. Curves connote movement, action, winding, and instability while sleeping is non active, without movement which represents paralysis, a strong modernistic trait. Cummings uses the word “silver” as a pun of metal and machinery. …show more content…
The parts of the flowers and parts of the body being mixed together show pastiche since the parts of nature are being recreated into a new art form of the body. E. E. Cummings wonders if he “will complete the mystery of [his] flesh” and this represents the confusion of the self, or rather,
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