La guerre II
E. E. Cummings’ poem “La Guerre II” (often referred to by its first line, “O sweet spontaneous”) was published in 1923 in his first collection, “Tulips and Chimneys”.
Edward Estlin Cummings was born on 14 October 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and he died on 3 September 1962 in Madison, New Hampshire, US, at the age of 67.A poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, Cummings is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century and is associated with modernist free-form poetry. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lowercase spellings for poetic expression.
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O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosphers pinched and poked
thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true
to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest
them only with spring)