Touch
Cummings must've had his hands full, juggling all the touch imagery in this poem. You'll find mentions of fingers, hands, mysterious touches, and textures. This motif is knit tightly with some of t...
Eyes
This is far from the only love poem where a speaker goes on about how awesome his or her lover's eyes are. Plenty of songwriters have gone off about their significant other's eyes, too—though not...
Roses
Cummings boldly goes where many have gone before by writing about roses in a love poem. If you've ever been alive on this earth on Valentine's Day, then you've seen a billion, bright-red examples o...