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Analysis Of Ee Cummings Poem Since Feeling Is First

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E. E. Cummings poem “since feeling is first” starts with the author talking to the reader as a love interest in which the author is trying to persuade into not over-analyzing the moment, but to live in it instead. Cummings starts the poem off with suggesting that nobody can kiss you as passionate as someone who lives in the moment. Cummings proceeds to persuade the love interest in the next four stanzas, therefore, allowing the idea to form that he is conveying to the reader to live life and not overthink it. The author's artistic fabrication of the theme can be represented by others abstract images and idea, but ideally, be portrayed as a GIF by Jean Scuderi called “Live Love” from the website Giphy. The GIF pans across three female faces, …show more content…

In "since feeling is first," Cummings writes how he thinks death is no parenthesis. When he uses the word parenthesis in the context of death to say it is not something to think about after because life can come to an end and you can regret not cherishing what you had. "Live Love" does the same by using the four words “before it's too late” to insinuate that life is very limited because of this it is expressing to the audience to enjoy life and live. The GIF express the theme because it shows that life can come to an abrupt end so it is best to enjoy and live it while you can. Both Cummings and Scuderi (creator of "Live Love") used the need to outdo death to encourage the audience to do just that, to live and love before life …show more content…

The article goes into depth when interpreting Cummings's writing and comes to the conclusion that the Cummings is also trying to persuade the reader for them to allow themselves to feel emotional and live fully in the moment. The article talks about the plot of the poem and mentions that a person who only pays attention to things and only engages in a relationship with the decent order will not connect with their partner as passionately as someone who does not. “Live Love” (the GIF) wants to show the audience that they should live while they still can, to love while they still breathe because if they were to stop to think about that moment suddenly the moment will be no more leaving them to feel despair or empty. Therefore, the GIF expresses a similar idea, by the way, it says "Live and love before it's too late" because it's saying to love, do not think, live before the moment pass them by and then they ache to have that moment back. Both works express to their audience to live in the moment they are in, to allow themselves to love without over-analyzing what's going on because of that moment possibly passing them

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