E. E. Cummings

The poem reveals that cummings not only believes in God, but finds faith in the deity through the beauty of the incarnate world, which cummings joyously celebrates in these verses. In other words,...

When reading a cummings poem, it often seems that we "feel" the meaning of the poem rather than actively comprehending the words. cummings toys with this here in his use of language such as...

The poet e. e. cummings advises students that the most important piece of advice he can give is to "learn how to feel." He says that any old person can learn to think or to know. He implies that...

There is a belief that suggests that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. This could serve as an excellent starting point for the discussion in Cummings' work. The premise of the poem is...

This poem is an interesting—if occasionally difficult—read, considering its seemingly erratic use of spacing, punctuation, and capitalization. A little research into the style of E. E. Cummings's...

E. E. Cummings is well-known for his writing and Plato Told is typical of his individuality. It is a timeless poem which reminds the reader that war is an ongoing tragedy that will never change...

There are two aspects of the poetry of E.E. Cummings that make him significant: He was on the "cutting edge" of the Modernist, experimental movement. His poetry is new in its typography, its...

The "You" represents God, to whom the poem is addressed. This poem is a prayer of thanksgiving, spoken directly to God, thanking Him for the beauty of the natural world, "for everything which is...

Three kinds of massive, destructive forces mentioned in e.e. cummings's poem are a tornado, a blizzard, and a manmade apocalypse. After the unheralded destruction of World War I, poets such as...

Cummings uses language ingeniously to relate his feelings about love and other aspects of life. In "since feeling is first," a love poem, he uses the metaphor of punctuation to describe his...

First, while it is true that Cummings wrote his own name without punctuation or capitalization (e e cummings), it has become common practice for scholars to normalize the form when citing or...

e.e. cummings had very interesting and unique ways of expressing himself, and "in Just-" is no exception to his typical style. He likes to break grammar rules, bending them to create the...

One of the excellent effects cummings uses in this poem to convey his message can be detected in the final line of the poem. cummings's work often does not utilize full sentences structured in a...

E.E. Cummings, in his poem "A Poet's Advice," maintains that writing poetry is a supremely difficult task. Cummings begins by defining the task of a poet: A poet is somebody who feels, and who...

Cummings is calming a child at bedtime, whose child problems and worries have made him/her restless. At the same time, of course, Cummings is calling us all "little children" who are worrying...

In his poem "next to of course god america i," e. e. cummings satirizes the blind chauvinism that politicians summon from the citizens and soldiers in order to serve their purposes in times of war....

In the poem "since feeling is first," E.E. Cummings intertwines two powerful metaphors to express his belief that emotion is a more reliable perspective from which to examine issues of life and...

In "since feeling is first," a love poem, e.e. cummings uses the metaphor of punctuation to describe his feelings. At the very end of the poem, he states, "for life's not a paragraph/and death I...

cummings is mocking patriotic rhetoric. cummings mashes cliches that you would typically hear from politicians in speeches or traditionally, at fourth of july celebrations. this is a satire on a...

The sensation of being in the company of your lover is second to nothing of which the speaker can conceive. Feelings takes precedence over anything that is of the nature of an intellectual...

This poem, convoluted and abbreviated in typical Cummings style, is a homage to individuality, a portrait of Kitty herself, and an admonishment to her “Johns” – a description of the less obvious...

An avowed pacifist dedicated to averting war, Cummings' poem is an indictment of blind patriotism that accompanies most war efforts. In his own life, Cummings experienced the downside of war,...

It seems difficult to me to say what mood this poem conveys. cummings is restating his philosophy that feeling and emotion are primary and reason is secondary. He believes that those who live their...

In the poem, anyone represents the individual. When anyone "sang his didn't" and "danced his did," he is celebrating life in a sense. The idea of "sang his didn't"...

These two poems, the first (XX, from 1x1) a three-stanza series of octavo lines, speculates on the expansion of words beyond their limitations, positing a release of vocabulary and parts of speech...

The speaker states that anyone who believes in structuring emotion in logic and order will never fully experience that emotion. The emotion must be felt first. If the emotion is filtered through a...

In a word, the poem has no rhyme scheme. That is, the end-words do not echo any other end-words. Technically, it would be called “blank verse” although that term implies some attention to poetic...

This modified sonnet by E. E. Cummings varies from the traditional sonnet form in its rhythm, meter, punctuation, and capitalization. One of Cummings' signature techniques is erratic punctuation...

This work does not fall into traditional repeated feet or meter. Instead, it both mocks and replicates the speech tones of an insincere political public rant, meant to impress the audience with a...

Alliteration is used in E.E. Cummings' "next to of course god america I": "Love your land" in line 2, "glorious name by gorry" in line 7, "jingo by gee by gosh by gum" in line 8, "heroic happy,"...

In the lines you have cited from this love poem, the poet, E. E. Cummings, personifies the moon and the sun. The speaker of the poem says that "you are whatever a moon has always meant / and...

E. E. Cummings’s poem “since feeling is first” centers around a speaker who is attempting to persuade a potential lover to ignore her “wisdom” and the expected order of courting. In much (if not...

As you say, the poet is setting up a number of things that he says are opposites. In line 9, he speaks of wisdom. In this case, the opposite of wisdom is given in the previous line, line 8. He...

I think what e.e. cummings is saying is not that it is difficult to be a poet. I think he is saying that it is difficult to be original - and therefore implying, that in order to be a poet, you...

By starting with Cummings’ famous topiary poem, from Chansons Innocentes (“Songs of Innocence”), you are seeking a Yeats poem that either speaks of childhood, or experiments with poetic conventions...

One of the challenges with the poetry of e. e. cummings is to achieve precisely what you have mentioned - it is difficult to break it down into logical sentence structure. Obviously you might come...

Both poems depict elements of obsession. Although the gender of the characters is never specified, we will assume, for the sake of this analysis, that the speaker of each poem is male and the...

Foregrounding is any instance where an author or poet uses literary terms and calls attention to them through their salience. This poem uses plenty of foregrounding as the poet builds up his...

“in Just-” is a strong example of Cummings’ topiary style; by varying the line length and indentation, the poem on the printed page takes to shape of the “goat-footed”(read Pan) balloon man. As an...

On the surface, the narrator is speaking to a little kitten who has fallen asleep with its eyes open. But the poem also speaks of spring, and in combination these images reflect Cummings’ interest...

This poem is a pure, ardent, and heartfelt declaration of love. The speaker wants the one that he loves to know, unequivocally, that his love is genuine, passionate ,and uncompromising. He also...

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These two poems by the inestimable e. e. cummings clearly offer very different views on life. "In Just-" gives us a childhood pictue of the sheer joy of living as the children in the poem rejoice...

There is an echo of cummings poem in the Yeats poem “Sailing to Byzantium,” not superficially (Byzantium was a great capitol, closer to a cathedral than a “little church") but in its placing of the...

Persons initially approaching cummings’ poetry are often blinded by his innovative typographical and line-length experiments, and miss the beautiful layering of images that reflect his unique view...

I have always found this poem to be one of the more difficult cummings poems to figure out. With e. e. cummings, it is really important to look at the non-traditional way he uses words because...

You couldn’t have picked a more unlikely candidate to compare to this Yeats poem than e.e. cummings, for theme, and for style. Cummings did not see seasons as inevitably leading to death, but...

This poem is a good example of a Modernist poem. Modernist writers, like e. e. cummings, often drew upon the horrors of World Wars I and II in their writing, while at the same time emphasizing and...