All in green went my love riding Themes
Love
It's almost too easy. A poem that practically glistens with adjectives describing the shininess, the golden purity of the speaker's love is going to head in one of two directions: either it turns i...
Violence
It's funny that so many really interesting scenes in history tend to center around the hunt. We're not talking about a metaphorical hunt, like The Hunt for Red October. No, "All in green" gives us...
Man and the Natural World
The very crux of "All in green" is a linguistic substitution, or, in fancy English lit terms, a pun—and the pun happens to play upon the very relation between man and animal. Put another way, hun...
Appearances
Sure, "All in green" seems to be a fairly straightforward story about a hunt. But Cummings takes all kinds of detours along the way, lingering to describe the running deer, the crouching hounds, or...