An Analysis Of The Poem You Doing, My Midsummer By E. Cummings

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Cummings takes on the words of “anywhere” and “whatever” giving the readers of a universal imagery. The point is connection with his lover and that is the most important part in all he does during his time of ‘what’ and ‘where’. The fourth line brings in paradox for anything done by him is not only his ‘doing’ however, but his lover’s ‘doing’ as well. Cumings is hitting us with a paradox to show as if he wants us readers to understand that language is always subject to change. “...your doing,my darling” notice how the words of ‘doing’ and ‘my’ are squished next to each other, creating a tension to the readers the idea of unity again, how the two lovers are together. The use of the romantic cliche with the “my darling” which is mentioned before

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