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The meaning of poetry is most of the time beyond the reader and still farther than the horizon. However difficult poetry might be for a reader to understand, they can always analyze the aspects that make up a poetic work to try and reach a never ending horizon of depth. E.E. Cummings is one of those poets whose works are deeper than the deepest point of the ocean and have a never ending horizon. A specific poem that really captures the depth and his evoking style is “I Have Found What You Are Like” published in “100 selected Poems” during the mid 1920s. In this particular poem, his wide use of free verse, metaphors, and cacophony are found throughout not only in this specific work, but embodies his most famous works as well. All these aspects …show more content…

Free verse is made up of many aspects, much of which E.E.Cummings uses; the most common being capitalization. The same applies to the exquisite poem “I Have Found What You Are Like”. Cumming varies his use of free verse to convey a message to the reader, through rule breaking. Capitalization is one rule frequently broken and challenged, demonstrated by not capitalizing the word “i” throughout all of the poems that include first person. A distinct line used in the poem “I Have Found What You Are Like” is the first stanza that states, “i have found what you are like/the rain,”. Within not only the context of the poem, but also the rest of his works this unique use of the capitalization conveys to the reader that Cummings hold themselves as something that is not very important within the poem. He is literally something that is no more interesting nor more considerable than the rest of the …show more content…

Cummings work is his pattern use of metaphors. Metaphors, much like capitalization make up a great deal of the poetry E.E. Cummings writes. In the poem “I Have Found What You Are Like”, this use of metaphors can be seen through the entirety of the poem. A great example of this is the metaphor; “...your smile is/stirringofbirds…”. The effect of this is for the reader (who has no knowledge of “you” prior to reading the poem) to understand what he sees and what he feels when he see’s “You’s” smile, even though they might not know them. This makes Cummings writing reach a level of not only depth, but the reader is able to enter the heart and feeling of his

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