"Since Feeling is First"  Essay  

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Cummings maintains that emotions are better than knowledge. Do you agree? He says that any thought that you or I may have is not as good as an emotion like crying. How do you feel about that? Assuming that emotions are more important, what role do you feel intelligence plays in the equation? Do you think that it is less important or do you feel it has any importance at all? How do you think cummings felt?

In his poem, "Since Feeling is First"  Cummings uses analogies when talking about "life's not like a paragraph", and " ...death i think is no paranthesis".  An analogy is drawing a similarity  between things that are otherwise not the same.  Have you ever read other stories or poems where the author or poet has used analogies?  

    

 

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