1. By: E.E. Cummings Kyle Barga, Kelsey Steele, and Taylor Donoho since feeling is first..

2. since feeling is first 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 flowers. Don't cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says

3. 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 E.E. Cummings

4. Speakers Persona/Voice/Tone The speakers tone is serious and romantic because the speaker is describing his feelings for his lover. The speaker also makes a lot of comparisons to sentence structures that effects the authors tone.

5. Authors Purpose The author E.E. Cummings wrote this poem to express his feelings for his lover.

6. Important Vocabulary Syntax: relationship of words in a sentence. Gesture: movement usually the bodies actions. Parenthesis: a curved line, used in pairs to set off words or phrases, usually comments or explanation in sentences.

7. Figurative Language Metaphor: comparison between to unlike things. This doesn’t use like or as. Ex; “life is not a paragraph” -life doesn’t always go the way you plan and doesn’t have structure of a paragraph. Ex: “And death I think is no parenthesis” -death isn't the closing in your life (it does not end your life)

8. References http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoe m162.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoe m162.html http://thewitcontinuum.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/eec ummings1.jpg http://thewitcontinuum.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/eec ummings1.jpg