e.e. cummings’ poem, pity this busy monster is about the scientific and modern world in present time and it suggests that humanity is unknowingly destroying their lives through scientific progress. The inhuman speakers state that nature and the universe should be pitied: “pity poor flesh | and trees,poor stars and stones but never this | fine specimen of hypermagical | ultraomnipotence”(lines 10-13). The poet writes about the triumph of progress in the modern world. The speakers express their pity for nature and their hatred and distrust of human science and technology because of humanity's intellectual arrogance. The poem suggests both the natural world and humanity will fall and suffer as a result of manunkind’s tendency to ignore nature.
