you said Is
you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and forever…..and through the lattice which moved as
if a hand is touched by a
hand(which
moved as though
fingers touch a girl’s
breast,
lightly)Do you believe in always,the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my flowers to believe,the rain answered
i included a digital response peice to be viewed with the poem, i uploaded it but am not sure where it should pop up. hopefully it shows somewhere..
I don’t want to rip through the mystery, but is this a composite of four or five images? It makes me think about the simultaneity of the image in relation to the narrative quality of the poem. The poem unfolds as two metaphorically linked conversations (one between two human lovers and the other between the wind and the rain), while the image juxtaposes these experiences in one piece. If there is a duration to the image, it is in the process of decoding the pieces of the composite. And, if you are reading the cummings poem, the tension between the word and the image.
Yes. It is a composite. The simultaneity of the image goes along with how I interpreted the poem. As you said the poem uses two metaphorically linked conversations between human lovers and the wind and the rain. The poem to me read like it was a memory of a conversation, where everything is taken in at a single moment, in an instant. And while remembering it, everything comes together as one. I saw the wind and rain as a metaphor for the two lovers seperately, one being wind and and one rain, but yet being interconnected with everything (ie. the flower) and taken in one instant when their hands touch.
I didn’t make the image to represent the formal “time” element of the poem (how it is actually read physically) but rather how i felt it represented a moment in time. A flooding of emotion all at once.