DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i03.036

Pages: 738-744

Despite his typographical peculiarities, e. e. Cummings is the second most widely read American poet in the American society after Robert Frost. Meanwhile Cummings is the first cited poet for his puns, syntactical and grammatical distortions, word coinage, startling imagery and irregular typography. However, Cummings is considered as one of the most prolific American love poets and his best love poetry is that type which incorporates both his intense personal feelings with brilliance and linguistic felicity as he has depicted in Since Feeling is First. Thereby, this paper introduces Cummings as a genuine love poet who has distinguished wisely between love and lust in his poetry. Subsequently, this paper analyses literary Cummings’ love poem Since Feeling is First, depicting how he combined both his personal feeling and verbal felicity in a precise and an iconoclastic composition. Besides, this paper presents extensive stylistic analysis of the poem throughout all the graphological, phonological, lexical and morphological, syntactic, semantic levels. Therefore the main contention of this paper is to present Cummings as a love poet, analyzing literary and stylistically Since Feelings is First one of his typical love poems.