love is more thicker than forget E E

‘love is more thicker than forget’ E. E. Cummings By Leonie and Olivia

The Poem Ø Love takes many forms and is a conflicting subject Ø Focuses on the confusing feelings and stages of Cumming’s love Ø It has a contradicting nature Ø Expresses that love is not one thing but the other Ø It’s thick but also thin and mad but also sane Ø “It is most sane and sunly” Ø Shows different sides love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger that the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky Structure: Ø Written in four quatrain, making it iambic tetrameter. Ø This form makes the poem a ballad Ø Exact rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefcgcg Style: Ø Contradictory tone Ø Uses opposing adjectives to describe love Ø Cummings used interesting diction by his use of neologisms in the words “sunly” “moonly” and “unbe”

Themes: o Passion o Suffering o Sanity and Insanity o Memory o Depth o Failure f anaphora love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win Semantic Field: Love less never than alive ‘love’, ‘moonly’, less bigger that the least begin ‘wave’, ‘sea’, ‘sky’ less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky Repetition of “love” and “more” emphasise the main message of the poem