Ee Cummings Humanity I Love You Analysis

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The complex poem, "Humanity I Love you" by E.E. Cummings reflects upon the doing of humanity. Through out the poem, the narrator gives reasons why it loves humanity, but at the same time those reasons can give off a vibe that humanity is bad. Like this poem, a lot of poetry can be rather confusing, and it can be hard to know the real message. To fully understand this poetry on a deep level one must look at all the elements of it. The structure is a huge element when looking at poetry. One can tell a lot from just looking at the poem. While the poem is free verse, it does have some form to it. The form of the "Humanity I love you" is quite simple with six stanzas all being four lines. It makes it easy to follow, and the reader doesn't get overwhelmed. This reflects upon the fact that this poem is really straight forward and gets to it's point. The poem is separated into there sentences with in the six stanza, each sentence getting two stanza. This leaves the feeling that there is more behind the situations Cummings is giving. It makes some reader go back and read it over again so they get the full objective of the poem. With in the poem it title is mentioned three times. The title itself is simple and has a …show more content…

Cummings puts the words together and uses them to deepen the poem. There is a lot of imagery in this poem which makes it entertaining to read. Each situation in the poem explains some fault in society by using imagery. In the first stanza, it uses the metaphor about how people "black the boots" which refers to them caring so much about their appearance and little about others. The metaphors in this poem are the things that make it contradict itself. The language makes up the overall mood of the poem. At first the poem seems positive and happy, but looking into the language the reader sees that there is a overpowering sense of negativity behind the imagery

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