In the poetry of e.e. cummings, there tends to be a certain structure and style that remains constant throughout, and this uniformity is apparent in love is a place, which was published in No Thanks in 1935. The two stanzas are almost identical in structure, tone, and language. For example, in the first stanza he writes

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

Cummings takes the vague notion of love and notes that it is not just an emotion or ideal or verb, but suddenly a location. He then mirrors the structure and syntax ("the arrangement and logical coherence of words in a sentence") in the second stanza:

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

By using a similar structure, the reader focuses on the syntax and word usage of this piece. For example, Cummings uses the words `love' and `yes' as nouns (a place), which he then manipulates with imagery of `skillfully curled' worlds within a world of yes. In a strange way, his definition of love seems both abstract and more concrete because of the simple language he uses. Also, the association of love and yes can be examined further. Gunnar Bengtsson described the poetry of e.e. cummings in a short biography, noting that in spite of influences by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell,

Cummings's early poems had nevertheless discovered an original way of describing the chaotic immediacy of sensuous experience. The games they play with language (adverbs functioning as nouns, for instance) and lyric form combine with their deliberately simplistic view of the world (the individual and spontaneity versus collectivism and rational thought) to give them the gleeful and precocious tone which became a hallmark of his work.

If you like e.e. cummings, you might like William Carlos Williams even more...

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