Stanza 4 breaks away from the couple to talk about the rest of the townspeople when it is mentioned that “someones married their everyones” (13). This stanza tells the short tale of everybody else in the town, where they marry, laugh, cry, dance, sleep, wake, and eventually all die. “anyone” dies as well, soon followed by “noone” and the two are buried together. They decompose and become part of the earth by spring, implying they died in winter. The last stanza is similar to Stanza 2, where it mentions the women and men sowing and reaping. However, in this stanza, cummings once again uses hyperbaton to say the people, “went their came” (35). The phrase essentially means the people came into the world and went out of it just as easily. However, by placing “went” at the beginning of the phrase, cummings emphasizes the “went” part of people’s lives, which refers to their death. Stressing death over life shows how cummings believes that life is so repetitive that death comes just as easily as life. The similar elements in the beginning and ending of the poem conclude with the idea that life is a continuous cycle that goes the same way for
Stanza 4 breaks away from the couple to talk about the rest of the townspeople when it is mentioned that “someones married their everyones” (13). This stanza tells the short tale of everybody else in the town, where they marry, laugh, cry, dance, sleep, wake, and eventually all die. “anyone” dies as well, soon followed by “noone” and the two are buried together. They decompose and become part of the earth by spring, implying they died in winter. The last stanza is similar to Stanza 2, where it mentions the women and men sowing and reaping. However, in this stanza, cummings once again uses hyperbaton to say the people, “went their came” (35). The phrase essentially means the people came into the world and went out of it just as easily. However, by placing “went” at the beginning of the phrase, cummings emphasizes the “went” part of people’s lives, which refers to their death. Stressing death over life shows how cummings believes that life is so repetitive that death comes just as easily as life. The similar elements in the beginning and ending of the poem conclude with the idea that life is a continuous cycle that goes the same way for