anyone who lived in a pretty how town Man and the Natural World Quotes

Again, Cummings uses images of nature to remind us that all the little parts of our lives are connected to a larger whole. And that whole is nature. Individual human lives are pretty tiny things compared to all of nature, but this is exactly why they're valuable—because they're part of something bigger.

Cummings returns to these types of images as though they were a chorus in a song. He wants us to think about individual human lives, but he never wants us to forget that the cycles of nature ultimately are in control of what's going on.

When anyone and noone are finally dead, Cummings reminds us that the two of them return into the earth. It's almost like a sort of homecoming, since all humans are born into nature and they eventually die back into it, too.