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‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’ by E.E. Cummings describes the destructive nature of progress and how it has damaged humankind’s view of the world. Read Poem PDF Guide
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pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity ...
Jason Avinger. Barrett Wilke. Website. [1] This Busy Monster was an American indie rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s. The band was composed of Christopher Possanza (vocals, guitar), Josh Rosenfeld (bass guitar), Jason Avinger (guitar, vocals) and Barrett Wilke (drums).
Compared to cummings' other works, this poem shares themes of nature, technology, and the human condition, but with a more cynical and critical tone. It aligns with the modernist movement of the time period, which questioned traditional values and the impact of industrialization on society and individuals. Read more →.
“Pity this busy monster,manunkind” is a poem that emphasizes cummings’s belief in nature and his opposition to those things—science, technology, and intellectual arrogance—that he believed...
"pity this busy monster, manunkind" is a poem by American poet E. E. Cummings, first published in his 1944 book 1 × 1. It is among his best-known poems.
pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself.
