Analysis Of The Poem In Spite Of Everything By Ee Cummings

I am reading and analyzing a poem by E. E. Cummings called “in spite of everything”. Unlike several of Cummings’ other poems, this one is actually relatively short. In the second line, Cummings begins to use personification for ‘Doom’: “Doom / (with white longest hands” (2-3). This provides a very vivid image in the reader’s mind. When I was reading this line I was imagining a hand slowly smoothing out wrinkles and creases in a bed sheet. Cummings says that ‘Doom’ “will smooth entirely our minds” (5). This image of ‘Doom’ kind of reminds me of death or the grim reaper, but it is an interesting symbol because ‘Doom’ is described as white when you would assume black to be involved. It seems as if the lovers in the poem are accepting impending