A review by addystape
Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings

5.0

One of my favorite poets. His poems, through their content and form, give me faith, encourage me to feel more than think, and touch my heart. As everyone knows, he abandons conventional syntax and sentence structure, but why does he do this? Because "the syntax of things can never wholly kiss you." How I ache when I think of the sacrifice of the lover in one of his poems when he says "Or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, ..."