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 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
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
posted by Jona at 10:53 AM
3 Comments:
"life's not a paragraph"
someone sprayed that in two foot high letters on the side of keeble college oxford. the college washed it off, leaving the words in two and a half foot high clean patches.
he who neglects syntax is, makes lingwistik errers.
does that matter? i think the poems (which are e. e. cummings') communicate something beyond/ outside syntax. the laws of grammer are fairly incidental and count for little when the stakes are beauty and truth. i think the very fact they break grammatical rules gives them a very raw, fragile quality that only enhances their meaning. the fact you can still glean sense in their absence speaks volumes about language.
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