Journal #3

Title: you said Is
Author: E. E. Cummings
Style: Literary Critic
S: The essences of love
O: To question love’s origin
A: Anyone who considers
themselves to be in love
P: To reassure a lover’s loveS: Love
Tone: Soft

Response:

In the poem “you said Is” by E. E. Cummings, I think the message of conveyed is effective because it draws out love in many different forms out of people. It can cause a reader to feel sad because the reader could have been in a relationship with a person who continuously professed his or her love only to find out that the person did not really love them. It can make a reader feel a sense of hope in a relationship he or she is currently trying to mend. It can be taken in many different ways depending on the mind set on the individual who reads it. I took it as the essences of love because I believe the poem refers to phase that can be caused by love. The diction used in this poem helps me conclude that there is a natural state of love where everyone no matter the race or gender can experience the same degree. That may make it possible in away for a person to have more than one true love. The poetry devices used to convey the message within the poem are end rhyme and euphony because they add a form of security to people who found love after struggling to maintain the relationship they believed in. The poem gives people that are currently in love reassurance and that is good because everyone needs that once in awhile. For people who reject love because they have been hurt; the poem can help them to revaluate their relationship. Most times people are not in love but instead develop desires to spend time with people who they feel attracted to; that comes from assumptions and miscommunication. Through my short live, I seen a lot of people claim they were in love because of lust rather than actually developing love and I admit I had indulged in a few relationships that were out of pure lust as well. I got to the point where that was not enough for me, I needed to experience full blown love; I did with a very special girl and our relationship fit the description of a modern day fairy tale. Basically, love can be a achieved but it must be nurtured to be significant.