'next to of course god america i' seems to be spoken from the heart of E.E. Cummings himself. He removes himself from the poem by using a speaker within a speaker, but the content of the poem directly corresponds with Cummings' life experiences.
Using alliteration, the speaker connects and emphasizes important words, especially in line 2, which spotlights the words "love" and "land." In this way, alliteration helps the speaker underline words that exaggerate the poem's intensely patriotic tone.
next to of course god america i is a 14 line sonnet with a rhyme scheme ababcdcdefgfeg and an inconsistent iambic meter (metre in British English) which helps vary the rhythmic stresses of the lines. Basically this is a hybrid English and Russian sonnet with a cumming's twist - a single line at the end.Sep 23, 2020
Answer: The speaker of this poem can be the poet (E. E. Cummings) himself. He has presented himself as a little boy here in this poem by recalling his childhood experience connected with nature.Feb 4, 2021
'the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls' by E. E. Cummings is about the differences in social classes, ignorance, and reality. The speaker judges the Cambridge women for the fiction they engage in and their lack of interest in the real world.
E.E. Cummings “next to of course god america i” is a poem about patriotism and the war. The poem starts off with the speaker being someone that is a patriot and feels strongly about America. As the poem progresses it takes a different approach becoming very sarcastic.Jan 1, 2015
The speaker is the voice or "persona" of a poem. One should not assume that the poet is the speaker, because the poet may be writing from a perspective entirely different from his own, even with the voice of another gender, race or species, or even of a material object.Oct 7, 2020
Who is the speaker addressing and why can that person not hear or understand what she is saying? ➜ The speaker is addressing an absent person (a lovable person). The person cannot hear or understand what she is saying because the person is no more.Jan 27, 2021
Explain. ➜ Nature inspires the speaker a lot in "who are you, little i". The beauty of nature has made him recall his beautiful childhood experience. He finds himself as a little boy of five or six years old in his childhood.Feb 17, 2021