E. E. Cummings

I Like My Body When It Is with Your

I Like My Body When It Is with Your - meaning Summary

Physical Intimacy as Discovery

This poem is a direct, exuberant celebration of bodily intimacy and sexual delight. The speaker revels in the newness of being physically joined with a beloved, cataloguing touch, movement, and sensation with urgent repetition. Language is playful and tactile, turning ordinary body parts and actions into fresh discoveries. The tone mixes tenderness and erotic thrill, emphasizing mutual pleasure and the speaker’s joyful immersion in another’s presence.

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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

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