Since Feeling Is First
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Published in 1940
"Since Feeling Is First" was published in 1940 in E. E. Cummings’ collection 50 Poems. The poem embodies Cummings’ modernist tendency to privilege emotion and immediate experience over conventional order, arguing for love and impulse over grammatical or rational constraints. Its context within a late 1930s–1940s collection situates it amid Cummings’ experimental, anti-formal work, where playful syntax and idiosyncratic punctuation underscore this thematic stance.
Read Complete Analysessince 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 the 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
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