i thank you God for this most amazing by ee cummings

As we turn our attention towards the new year, I have chosen this opportunity to reflect on the poetic theme
of rebirth. Rebirth is a theme that not only arises from classical Christian poetry but from the strictest
modernists as well. To make that point we are starting the week by looking at "i thank you God for this
most amazing" of e.e. cummings. The use of parentheses, nontraditional capitalization and relentless
enjambment (even in the title) are trademarks of Cummings' work.   Because Cummings draws such attention
to imagery in the last two stanzas, by talking about eyes, ears and our senses, we ought to particularly careful
about looking for the imagery in the first two stanzas. It is in this imagery that we can gain much insight into
his feelings about rebirth.

i thank you God for this most amazing
by e.e. cummings

i thank you God for this most amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)