Comments on: Favorite poems: i like my body when it is with your body http://ericedits.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/favorite-poems-part-4/ "Every day I did not spend in solitude was wasted." Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: spen http://ericedits.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/favorite-poems-part-4/#comment-952 spen Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:00:55 +0000 http://ericedits.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-952 Largely influenced by his religious upbringing Cummings “set feeling against thinking and offered it as the route to wholeness” (Milton). For this reason he remained in history as the greatest American lyrical poet of the twentieth century. Cummings’ love poems are a direct expression and representation of sexual intercourse and celebration of unity without them becoming pornographic. Instead he develops a delicate and nostalgic atmosphere where intercourse is highlighted by a sublime love that merges the two bodies into “a quite new thing”. Largely influenced by his religious upbringing Cummings “set feeling against thinking and offered it as the route to wholeness” (Milton). For this reason he remained in history as the greatest American lyrical poet of the twentieth century. Cummings’ love poems are a direct expression and representation of sexual intercourse and celebration of unity without them becoming pornographic. Instead he develops a delicate and nostalgic atmosphere where intercourse is highlighted by a sublime love that merges the two bodies into “a quite new thing”.

]]> By: andy http://ericedits.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/favorite-poems-part-4/#comment-78 andy Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:11:19 +0000 http://ericedits.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-78 some of my favorite parts of cummings' work has been his play with grammar and punctuation that disassembles words, creates multiple meanings and uses tricks like adverbs describing nouns. then there are his sound plays that remind us that these poems are to be heard as well as read. Picasso you give us Things which bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind you make us shrill presents always shut in the sumptuous screech of simplicity another brilliant aspect of his work is the assonance that he uses in place of rhyme. yes is a pleasant country: if's wintry (my lovely) let's open the year both is the very weather (not either) my treasure, when violets appear love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one (and april's where we're) e. e. cummings some of my favorite parts of cummings’ work has been his play with grammar and punctuation that disassembles words, creates multiple meanings and uses tricks like adverbs describing nouns.

then there are his sound plays that remind us that these poems are to be heard as well as read.

Picasso
you give us Things
which
bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind

you make us shrill
presents always
shut in the sumptuous screech of
simplicity

another brilliant aspect of his work is the assonance that he uses in place of rhyme.

yes is a pleasant country:
if’s wintry
(my lovely)
let’s open the year

both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear

love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april’s where we’re)

e. e. cummings

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