As the title suggests Cambridge, Massachusetts is an upscale community. It also happens to be Cummings’s hometown, and the location of Harvard University where he attended college. The ladies are referred to as wealthy, interpreted from the line “are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds”. They care for no one but those within their circle of friends, and appear to be anything but beautiful in the eyes of the narrator. The style is not free verse, but in sonnet form. When applying Poe’s theory to this poem, it has no meter, rhythm, or rhyme. This does however operate as a poem, because it is sending a message that certain groups of people put themselves above everyone else, and look down to the rest of
As the title suggests Cambridge, Massachusetts is an upscale community. It also happens to be Cummings’s hometown, and the location of Harvard University where he attended college. The ladies are referred to as wealthy, interpreted from the line “are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds”. They care for no one but those within their circle of friends, and appear to be anything but beautiful in the eyes of the narrator. The style is not free verse, but in sonnet form. When applying Poe’s theory to this poem, it has no meter, rhythm, or rhyme. This does however operate as a poem, because it is sending a message that certain groups of people put themselves above everyone else, and look down to the rest of