Since the beginnings of the literature love has been one of the most important themes for the writers and accordingly for the readers. Not only did the poets impose themselves the immensely difficult task to describe the notion of love, but they also left the readers with the enjoyable but not easy thing that is the deciphering the meaning of their descriptions. It is how the American poet, prosaic and dramatist, Edward Estlin Cummings, behaved by giving people the interesting image of love in the poem starting with the words: “love is more thicker than forget…”. In this essay I will endeavour to analyse and interpret his vision of love.
At the beginning I would like to focus on the structure of this poem. It includes four stanzas, each of four lines and of a regular and repeated number of syllables (first stanza:8, 6, 8, 6; second: 7, 6, 7, 6; third: 8, 6, 8, 6; fourth: 7, 6, 7, 6). This, in conjunction with the fact that there are syntactical parallelism, lots......
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