Journal 5

S: a man who thinks his wife is cheating on him
O: To tell his wife, how he feels
A: His Wife
P: To express his internal feeling
S: A man who hates being cheated on
Tone: Regretting, Let things be

Literary Critic:
The author E.E. Cummings is telling his wife how he feels and he wants to show that, maybe things are suppose to be that way. This is unusually poem because most man will not let go of their loved ones without a try. Through this poem, Cummings sets a setting for the readers. This setting shows a love/ caressing mood. Take for an example “if on another’s face[her] sweet hair lay,” this line shows like a soothing/lovely mood for the readers.
Cummings uses two devices that carry’s out the meaning of the poem. For every line, except for two lines, there are ten syllables. The two lines that are not the same is “great writhing words as, uttering overmuch/……that I may go unto him, and take his hands.” Another device I saw being use is that one could see the pattern of the poet. The end rhymes of some of the lines are similar and this is how it goes.
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B
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A
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B
A

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