my father moved through dooms of love Analysis

Cummings has all kinds of fun with form and meter in "my father moved through dooms of love." He never quite commits to one thing or another, but put together it makes for a very interesting whole....

It's widely known that Cummings wrote this poem as an elegy to his father, Edward Cummings, who died in a car accident. But it's hardly ever a good idea to think of the author as the speaker in a p...

"my father moved through dooms of love" doesn't have a specific setting, but if we had to dream one up, it would probably be a funeral. We imagine the speaker standing by his father's grave as the...

In this elegy, the speaker takes us on surreal journey through his father's seemingly awesome life. As we discuss over in "Form and Meter," the singsong rhythm of a lot of the poem gives us the fee...

Like a ton of other poets, Cummings never gave his poems titles, so editors just use the first line as the title of each poem. But "my father moved through dooms of love" totally works as a title,...

Most people know Cummings as the guy who got really creative with capitalization. If you see a poem that's almost all in lower case, chances are you're looking at something by our buddy E.E., or yo...

You probably ought to dress warmly before you set out for a hike through these "dooms of love" (1.1). Cummings's avant garde techniques, especially his weird syntax, definitely make you have to rea...

Cummings's Father was killed when a train slammed into his car. His mother was also in the car, but miraculously survived. (Source.)Here's some juicy gossip. Cummings had a daughter by a lady named...

There's no sex in this poem at all, though some might find the talk about death to be a little scary (definitely not sexy, though).