Does anyone like ee cummings, and if so, what is your favorite work by him?

Answer 1

My favorite is:

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

- ee cummings

Answer 2

e.e. cummings is my all time favorite!!! I carry your heart with me is my favorite poem ever. All of his works are so creative and wonderful

some other poems i like by him:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
when (being fool to fancy) i have deemed

with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
at moments when the glassy darkness holds

the genuine apparition of your smile
(it was through tears always) and silence moulds
such strangeness as was mine a little while;

moments when my once more illustrious arms
are filled with fascination, when my breast
wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:

one pierced moment whiter than the rest

--turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

Answer 3

Cummings is brilliant. I could list dozens of my favorite poems by him, but that's not important. What matters is you finding your own favorites. There are lots of websites that provide samples from his many books. Try this one, for example:

http://www.geocities.com/soho/8454/eec.htm

Three poems at that site you might enjoy clicking on:

mr youse needn't be so spry

i like my body when it is with your

Buffalo Bill's

But don't stop with those three. Most of his poems are fairly short. Try a variety of them. He's got tender, sexy love poems, angry political poems, deeply spiritual poems about God and nature, poems that will make you laugh out loud, all kinds of great stuff.

Answer 4

ditto "ari's" answer.
awesome poem.
margot