77 Poems, E.E. Cummings : Poem 64

77 Poems - E.E. Cummings

64

      Cummings uses the shape of the poem in order to introduce a character in the beginning and to create a stark conclusion on the second separate segment. The two separate pieces of the work elude a connection that meets both death and silence. At the start of the poem a finch is given attention with a cry directed at it. It is asked why must it die along with the speaker, from a warm world where they will miss to live in.
       If it were even possible for the bird to understand the words spoken, and the speaker to comprehend the chirping the speaker intends to state that he/she cannot sing.