since feeling is first

since feeling is first

by e.e. cummings



since feeling is first
who pays any attentionto
the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves
,and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
-the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis


This poem can go two ways, it could either be Mr.cummings trying to woe a lady. Or it could be trying to tell us that the love affair has became such a easy thing; where lovers do no think through and just goes on with their feeling because for them life is something they should do as much in the way they want for death is unavoidable and obvious life is too precious to follow rules. However, by looking at cummings lifestyle and looking at the tone and the mood of the poem it is likely that comings is trying tempt a lover.