E. E. Cummings A New System of

E. E. Cummings created a new system of writing poetry. It is difficult to analyze his style, for he consistently looked for ways to change the meaning of his expression and was known to break the defined rules of grammar. Cummings not only shaped poetry with his emotional vision of words but he also brought a sort of vision to his works with dimensional poetry art. He looked for different ways to be unconventional by experimenting with punctuation, unusual typography, compressed words, dislocated syntax and capitalization in order to capture his state of mind at that particular moment (Schafer; Sauvey).

In the poem “since feeling is first”, Cummings placed his primary emphasis on feeling rather than thinking and he treated beauty as a dependent on the feelings of the viewer or reader at that time. His state of mind was of experiencing love and life being more importance than rationalizing it. The emphasis is placed on feelings rather than thinking and he compares love to wisdom, stating knowledge is not as important as love. He uses an open form with the use of grammar and capitalizing certain words to create or stress the meaning of a word. For example, throughout

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