Analysis Of E. E Cummings Since Feeling Is First

Edward Estlin Cummings who is also known as E.E Cummings was an American poet. He also was many other things such as a painter, essayist, an author and a wrote many plays. E.E Cummings poem “Since feeling is first” published in 1926, is a short lyric that includes punctuation that is unpredictable, unconventional syntax which was a style that, Cummings used as his trademark for most of his writing. The short lyric is very seductive, and implies that passion that is felt so strongly overrides the behavior of love that would seem conventional. This lyric includes 5 stanzas and 16 lines and also includes enjambment, assonance, and irony. Many of the lines in this particular poem by Cummings uses metaphors, in which he compares life to a paragraph and death to parenthesis. Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet who lived in the twentieth century and was said to be an eminent voice of that century. Edward was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father and mother seemed to be well off considering the professions they held during that era. His father was a professor who taught at Harvard University and also a minister while his mother performed in plays. In 1916 Cummings received both his B.A and his M.A, from Harvard and from there he served …show more content…
The title itself is written is lower case letters. The poem is written in lower case letters except for three words in the entire poem. These words are Spring (line 6), don’t (line 10), and And (line 16). These capitalized words seem to have value or hold a different amount of weight then the lower cased words in this lyric. These words seem to have two meanings or a different tone to make the woman in the story fully understand that she is what he needed in his life. “lady I swear by all flowers. Don’t cry” this line shows that emotion is in the air and he is talking specifically to the woman. Cummings is consoling and comforting her with this