Research outline - E.E. Cummings Since Feeling is First Source 1 by Madilynn Pinson https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-12-08 14:08:10 UTC 2025-12-21 12:27:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 1 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/215016188 Cummings experiences in college and later driving an ambulance in France during WWI fueled his desire to make “new art” like Gertrude Stein and Paul Cezanne, leading him to
create the playful, grammatically liberal style  that came to define his poetry. ]]> 2017-12-11 14:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/215016188 2 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218638767 To fully engage in a kiss, e. e. cummings playfully contends, we must feel, not think of the rules. Intimacy is a bodily thing: the 'blood approves, | and kisses are a better fate | than wisdom']]> 2018-01-03 20:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218638767 The poem "Since Feeling is First" mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218638885 since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph

 and death i think is no parenthesis

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an illusion created by the apparent solidity of a well-oiled set of scientific and cultural 
 paradigms which themselves change over time.
]]> 2018-01-03 20:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218639038 Source 1 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737364 http://www.academia.edu/8148160/Since_feeling_is_first_teaching_royal_ethics_through_managing_the_emotions_in_the_late_Middle_Ages]]> 2018-01-04 14:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737364 3 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737620 Although the binary of a sterile, syntax-ruled wisdom and the felt, participatory enjoyment of intimate connection is a worn-out cliché of romantic love, its 
ability to hold our attention reminds us that we tend to think of the need for human closeness 
and its felt expression in language as essential or natural.
]]> 2018-01-04 14:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737620 5 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737985 If we rewind the clock far enough, past the 
language of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance to the Middle Ages, we encounter a 
discourse on the emotions that immediately challenges our assumptions.
]]> 2018-01-04 14:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218737985 6 mmpinson18 https://padlet.com/mmpinson18/57ngcz69pixa/wish/218738063 The difference is 
especially apparent in the medieval literature on the formation of the person whose authors refer to what we see as emotions—referred to as passions (passiones) and affections (affectiones)—not in terms of experiencing and enjoying the present world but as part of the 
 pursuit of wisdom in preparation for the afterlife.
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