i like my body when it is with your

i like my body when it is with your is a poem by e e cummings.

After reading all the poems, this was chosen for two main reasons: the lowercase letter i and what it made me feel.

To understand why he used lowercase, I did some research and I found this excerpt that explains his peculiar style:

 ¨... In his poems, he didn't use punctuation or capitalization.  Capitals were used only for special emphasis.  Punctuation marks were used only for a shock effect.  He was also noted for the use of the lowercase letter "i" in his poems. [...]   His work looks like random words and phrases thrown together, and the reader must stop and think beyond the written text.  E.E. Cummings was a different breed of poet.  He used his unconventional, yet brilliant style to send a message to the reader.  In his work, E.E. Cummings didn't use capital letters, proper punctuation, or proper grammar.  He used this to his advantage in mixing the message into the poem. He deliberatley [sic] confused the reader by having them follow the winding paths of words he had created because he felt that a straight one would narrow the reader's mind."

Taken from: http://english11poets.pbworks.com/w/page/19005388/ee%20cummings
(I decided to write in bold the main concepts)

After reading the poem several times, I experienced strong feelings like love, passion, desire, longing... 

This poem is about the physicality of a new loving relationship (concept taken from this webpage). It stimulated my creativity and, therefore, this was the result.




It was easy for me to visualize the story that was told in these stanzas. 

I imagined these lovers could have felt that they were flying into the heavens, that's the reason why the wall of my Glogster is a sky. Besides, I found another relation with the Passion this couple could have felt in the extract of a lecture that was given by the character of Barbara Streisand in the film The Mirror Has Two Faces.

I associated each image with a different moment in the poem.

The image of the couple that is hugging with the lines:

" i like its hows. I like to feel the spine of your body and its bones"

and the image of the couple kissing with the following line:

"kiss, I like kissing this and that of you"

While I was reading it for the third or forth time, I found myself humming the song "Loving you" and I decided to included it as well. I embedded this video that is not the original version, but it was made of lovely pictures of couples, which I found pretty appropriate.

This was the analysis and the Glogster of the beautiful poem: i like my body when it is with your by e e cummings made by Marina Robledo.