Since feeling is first After You Read Questions 1. When you read “since feeling is first,” does it seem like a love poem? Explain.2. (a)What kind of person does the poem’s speaker say “will never...

Since feeling is first After You Read Questions
1. When you read “since feeling is first,” does it seem like a love poem? Explain.2. (a)What kind of person does the poem’s speaker say “will never wholly kiss you”?(b)What do you think Cummings means by this?3. (a)In the poem, when is it acceptable to be a fool?(b)Why do you think the speaker limits being foolish to a particular time period?4. Does the poem suggest that “feeling is first” only in a relationship of love? Explain.5. Cummings ends the poem with “life’s not a paragraph” and death “is no parenthesis.” Does this ending fit the rest of the poem? Why or why not?6. Does Cummings’s disregard for rules of capitalization strengthen or weaken the poem? Explain.7. What does the poem suggest to you about where feelings should rank in your own life? How much importance do you place on your emotions?8. In the modern world, do you think more decisions are made based on feelings or logic? Explain.