Analysis of The Poem "The Cambridge Ladies Who Live In Furnished Souls"

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds ( also, with the church's protestant blessings daughters, un scented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead are invariably interested in so many things_ at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles? Perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D. ...the Cambridge ladies do not care, above …

…rattles" in the box like a "fragment of angry candy" because it refuses to be trapped, "cornerless" in the void the Cambridge ladies create for it. Here cummings is no longer sardonic, but downright indignant and "angry" . He chooses aggressive words and aggressive actions, phenomena alien to the ladies, but perhaps, he might be urging, not alien to the reader. One must seek to shatter illusory, preset "furnished" words and become an initiating, challenging person.