since feeling is first..
By: E.E. Cummings
Kyle Barga, Kelsey Steele, and Taylor Donoho
since feeling is first
 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 parenthesis
E.E. Cummings
Speakers Persona/Voice/Tone
 The speakers tone is serious and romantic because the
speaker is describing his feelings for his lover. The speaker
also makes a lot of comparisons to sentence structures that
effects the authors tone.
Authors Purpose
 The author E.E. Cummings wrote this poem to express his
feelings for his lover.
Important Vocabulary
 Syntax: relationship of words in a sentence.
 Gesture: movement usually the bodies actions.
 Parenthesis: a curved line, used in pairs to set off words or
phrases, usually comments or explanation in sentences.
Figurative Language
 Metaphor: comparison between to unlike things. This doesn’t
use like or as.
 Ex; “life is not a paragraph”
-life doesn’t always go the way you plan and doesn’t
have structure of a paragraph.
 Ex: “And death I think is no parenthesis”
-death isn't the closing in your life (it does not end your
life)
References
 http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoe
m162.html
 http://thewitcontinuum.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/eec
ummings1.jpg