2. I like my Body When it is With Your E.E Cummings I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new What I like about this poem is that it emphasizes the feeling of what's going on. E.E Cummings is very descriptive and gives you a lot of imagery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca8sLX0u4c&feature=related

3. My girl's tall with hard long eyes as she stands, with her long hard hands keeping silence on her dress, good for sleeping is her long hard body filled with surprise like a white shocking wire, when she smiles a hard long smile it sometimes makes gaily go clean through me tickling aches, and the weak noise of her eyes easily files my impatience to an edge--my girl's tall and taut, with thin legs just like a vine that's spent all of its life on a garden- wall, and is going to die. When we grimly go to bed with these legs she begins to heave and twine about me, and to kiss my face and head. E.E. Cummings This poem is very descriptive. He’s talking about a woman with long and to him luscious legs. Many times when he talks about the legs he personifies them.

4. E.E. Cummings Since feeling is first who pays any attention to 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 parenthesisSince feeling is first who pays any attention to 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 Since feeling is first" is a serious romantic love poem. E. E. Cummings is describing his favorite thesis - emotions, love, poetry, romance are all more important than pedantry, science and logic. "Feeling is first." Do and be, and don't worry about order and logic in love life. You should let your love out in the way it wants to without controlling it in the way that some may say it’s supposed to happen. E.E Cummings believes in natural love.

5. How does this poet exhibit characteristics of modernism? The language use The themes he picked are things that the audience can relate to Setting Universal theme

6. “E.E. Cummings picture” http://blogs.dalton.org/noble/files//2008/11/eecummings.jpg “Since Feeling is First” http://fiercefragile.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rose.jpg “poetry” in first slide” http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/poetry20logo20large20flyer.jpg “That’s all folks background” http://neilperkin.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d4dc653ef010536a7be88970b-500wi “Ballet legs background” http://www.funny-potato.com/images/women/legs/feminine-legs.jpg “question mark background” http://www1.sulekha.com/mstore/arambhusal/albums/default/question-mark.jpg

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