my father moved through dooms of love Themes
Death
When you've got an elegy on your hands, there's a high probability that the theme of death is going to rear its skull-y head. In "my father moved through dooms of love," the speaker honors his dear...
Philosophical Viewpoints: Individualism
Cummings was a big believer in the power of individualism and was constantly talking smack about all the conformity he saw around him. His free-spirited attitude was not only clear in his unique st...
Man and the Natural World
The theme of nature is a big deal in a lot of Cummings's poems. Some say that he wrote in the tradition of nature-loving Transcendentalist writers like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Also, hid dad...
Principles
The speaker's father sounds like a real stand-up guy. Throughout "my father moved through dooms of love," the speaker talks about his father like he was the most generous person in the world. Dad w...