This poem is fairly contrary to the very nature of Cummings's writing.  He used "incorrect" syntax to show his feelings in his poems, but this one states that life can not be captured in writing.  "for life's not a paragraph / And death i think is no parenthesis"  Although Cummings contradicts himself, the very nature of this poem does reveal the depth of life just the way he intended it to.  The mere fact that Cummings states that "life's not a paragraph" shows how important life is.  This poem is also quite romantic.  "--the best gesture of my brain is less than / your eyelids' flutter"  To Cummings, this small gesture is much more important than any intellectual thought ever produced.
 
 


 
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