Next_of_Course_to_America_God_I

Cummings is very straightforward in this poem. He doesn’t blind the reader with emotional interference but still he glorifies the country. Instead, he blasts the reader with a seemingly meaningless jumble of words. He does so just to engage the reader, capture his or her attention, and force his or her brain to begin to think. Cummings leaves out all punctuation except the question mark at the end. I think he does this just to make the poem incomprehensible the first time it is read. He makes the last line comprehensible so that the reader will think that maybe, just maybe, the poem might make sense. He gives his opinion as straight forward as the character in his poem can. The reader finds out to who the speaker is in the last line. In the first line he is talking about his great his love for America is. According to the poem, the only love he has greater than America is God. This is important because it shows that he thinks rationally and honestly by not saying he has no greater love than America. In the next part, he is just using politician talk to make it clear who the speaker is after the reader has read the last line. He makes the speaker sound important or knowledgeable. One could also argue that he is making a sarcastic reply to another politicians rant. Because cummings capitalizes the “H” in he and not the “I” in i, he is forcing the reader to focus equally on the guy’s character and what he says. Naturally, we tend to focus more on what the meaning is in writing than the composition and character of the speaker. It is very contrasting in of itself. Cumming’s praises the country for being glorious, but he almost criticizes the soldiers who rush headlong into war to defend it. He says they think not of honoring their country by any means but through war and death. I think he is hinting at other, more peaceful ways to serve America. He doesn’t put down the soldiers because he calls them “heroic happy dead,” he is just saying they need to think straighter and more realistically. Cummings is questioning the way we interpret patriotism and what we consider it to be. At the end, it says “He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.” This makes it clearer who the speaker actually is. Because he spoke rapidly and drank a glass of water, he has got more to say. Who else but politicians talk rapidly seeming nonsense and always have more to say'