The poem "since feeling is first" is about a man expressing his love to his beloved women, written by EE Cummings. The poem is in strophic form with a total number of 16 lines. Sentences contain no more than nine words and no fewer than four words. Cummings uses literary devices such as; metaphor, personification, image and denotation express his feelings. “For Feeling Comes First” is a romantic poem that teaches a lesson about life. His use of figurative language makes the poem appealing to readers. “For Feeling is First” is a free verse poem and the speaker is a specific character created by the author. The character created by Cumming is a man deeply in love. This poem has 16 lines in total and is structured in strophic form. Stanzas are grouped together with syntax errors. There is no proper punctuation that confuses the reader into pausing. There is an enjambment; where the lines stop after the completion of the thought. For example, stanza one contains four lines, and those four lines do not have the correct punctuation. To make sense of that verse, it should be read together. The author made this syntax error on purpose because he compares life to a paragraph (line 15). It was meant to demonstrate that life is not structured like a paragraph. Life does not have the logical order contained in the paragraph. The speaker of this poem is a man in love and believes that there is nothing better. The speaker's tone is romantic and constructive. Literally, the speaker is in love and thinks that nothing is greater than love. There is nothing that can be born in love. Figuratively speaking, the poem is about people who forget to realize the big things in life because they pay attention to trivial things and tend to miss something... middle of paper... it is a romantic poem that teaches a lesson about life. His use of figurative language makes the poem appealing to readers. It talks about how life is funny if you don't take minor details into consideration. The literary device; the connotation and imagery support the figurative meaning of the poem very well. However, this poem could be considered an irony in today's world. The theme; feelings are more important than wisdom in life is just another way of saying that thoughts are less important than the feelings that are produced. Wisdom is only a minor detail and if we consider it, the feeling it produces will be ignored. The poem is literally about a man expressing his love to his beloved women. This poem is in strophic form with a total number of 16 lines. It is a wonderful poem that makes readers think about the life they are living.