For 10 points, name this concept, whose personification is asked "how do you like your blue- eyed boy" in E. E. Cummings' poem "Buffalo Bill's."
A poem describes this concept as the "rhythmic lover" of the "sweet spontaneous earth," and mentions its "incomparable couch." A poem about a 16-year-old prostitute named Kitty describes her "slippery body" as the "littlest pal" of this concept. The speaker of another poem declares that he loves humanity "because you are forever making poems in the lap of" this concept, just before declaring "Humanity i hate you." Along with "forever," this concept is (*) rendered "with each breathing" by the texture of the addressee's "intense fragility" in the poem "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond." The poem "since feeling is first" ends by musing that this thing "is no parenthesis." For 10 points, name this concept, whose personification is asked "how do you like your blue- eyed boy" in E. E. Cummings' poem "Buffalo Bill's."
A poem describes this concept as the "rhythmic lover" of the "sweet spontaneous earth," and mentions its "incomparable couch."
death