Whats the meaning of this poem by ee cummings?

Question

THE Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
(also, with the church's protestant blessings
daughters,unscented 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
Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
sky lavender and cornerless, the
moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

whats the meaning of this poem??? thanks!

Answer 1

There's an interesting analysis in "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry", which can be viewed via Google Books at the link below.

Source(s):

http://books.google.com/books?id=Co3CfNY…

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Answer 2

I believe that the message he is trying to convey is something along the lines of:

Children of ages 10 to 18 should be able to do their own homework/coursework.

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