E.E. Cummings spoke

E.E. Cummings poem "next to of course god america i," is a very interesting one indeed. There are many interesting things that are going on within this poem. The one thing that stood out to me the most was the way in which it was written. Cummings uses terrible grammar throughout the entire poem, until the last line, but still if make one wonder why. The lack or any capitalization was an interesting move by Cummings, it makes his poem seem very informal and alot less mature. I myself believe that he did it in a satire to America and his feelings about the country. He seems to be mocking America and it's values which explains the informality of the poem. He uses no punctuation either which makes the whole poem seem like a big run-on sentance. One part that I found particularly pleasing was, "languagE. E.ven". I liked how he capitalized the E's to form his name and it also makes that part of the poem stand out since no other letters are capitalized in the main section. Looking again I just noticed that the whole poem is in quotes. This along with the correct grammar of the last line leads to think that the whole poem is supposed to look like it is being said by someone. Cummings wrote it in a way so that it would look like it was transcribed directly from the speaker to the paper. The was this whole poem is written confuses and interests me. I always like it when things are written outside the norms that they should be written in and this poem is a good example. In only 14 lines, Cummings acomplishes so much with his language and paints an interesting picture about America and it's values.