[O sweet spontaneous]

What makes E.E. Cummings poem [O sweet spontaneous] so unique is the set up to this poem. The title of the poem is the first line in stanza one. What really strikes me is the one word use throw out the poem. Also each stanza is a Quatrain I think with seven stanzas. I feel that E.E. Cummings in a way was kind of brilliant in how he set up this structure because it looks spontaneous. I could see him typing on typewriter and just seeing were it goes. The use of “fingers of prurient philosophers” (Cumming pg. 547) is an interesting word choice because I feel that phrase sums up the whole poem. Cummings love the spontaneous of writing and the words that flowed throw his mind and on to the paper. Cummings compares his writing to “prurient philosophers” because like most philosophers that speaks what comes to mind. The ending of the poem is very usual too because I don’t think that answerest is a real word and it looks that he hit the spacebar a couple of times. I feel that he did that to focus on his point of being spontaneous and make the message of death that he quotes in the last three stanzas seem not that dark.

---Richard Liptak