Monday, February 18, 2013

What is the mood of "since feeling is first" by e.e Cummings ?

It seems difficult to me to say what mood this poem
conveys. cummings is restating his philosophy that feeling and emotion are primary and
reason is secondary. He believes that those who live their lives by reason alone will
"never fully kiss you." That is, reason and convention cannot contain emotion just as
syntax and form (paragraphs) are portrayed as metaphors for constricting emotion and
meaning. So, he, stylistically and meaningfully, is saying that emotion and feeling are
only fully experienced if they are not constrained; by syntax or reason. So, the mood
seems to me to be either or instruction or annoyance. Reading it, I get the impression
that he's almost annoyed at reason, or annoyed at the suppression of emotions. "Life is
not a paragraph" - Life can't be described by a reasonable, objective, scientific series
of connected statements as you would find in a grammatically and thematically cogent
paragraph. For cummings, life is more like formless poetry, with stops and starts,
run-on meanings, and many ambiguities subject to different
interpretations.

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