Tuesday, April 22, 2008

observation 3

"I like my body when it is with yours" is a poem by e.e. cummings. The firs tthing I noticed about this poem is that it doesn't have a title. This is typical of e.e. cummings poetry, that he never names his poems. It had me wondering and thinking if maybe there was a particular reason or if he was going for a particular affect by not putting a title on it. The next thing I noticed was all of the off and awkward punctuation, repetition, and awkward spaces. After rereading it several times I realized that the poem is written this way for afffect. He is so repetitive in order to stress certain points.

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