Emotion vs. Intellect in Ode to a Nightingale and Since Feeling is Firs

Emotion vs. Intellect in Ode to a Nightingale and Since tinge is First We must look for guidance from the emotions non the mind. This romantic philosophy is portrayed in the works of both lav Keatss Ode to a Nightingale and E. E. e. e. cummingss Since Feeling is First. to each one poet addresses the complex relationship of following ones emotion and estrus as opposed to ones thought. Whereas Cummings supports living disembodied spirit fully in order to escape the confines of thought, Keats suggests death as the only possible means of overcoming this human consciousness. Cummingss Since Feeling is First compares the inadequacy of mental analysis with the smasher of emotional spontaneity by arguing feeling and the abandonment of inhibition to larger forces (Heyen 133). For the poet, acute wisdom comes from feeling, not thinking, which only allows us to see indirectly. In other words, the beauty of the experience is, in and of itself, proof of the power of beauty. Thus, Cummi ngs desires the reader to return the image of what we see, forgetting everything that existed before us (Cohen 42). Such a statement is not a condemnation of rationality, but instead an affirmation of the mystery of things, which is much compatible with feeling than with knowing, supposing the latter to be a form of measuring stick that lacks love. For Cummings, mind is only a villain when it becomes dissociated from feeling. Yet, with his first line, it is very classic that he convince his reader of his premise that feeling is first. For, Cummings is written material a seduction poem. He is telling the woman in the poem, in a carpe diem manner reminiscent of seventeenth-century style, to make good use of time, to stand for from feeling, to abandon her syntax in... ...raff, Gerald. Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma. Evanston Northwestern University Press, 1980. Heyen, William. In Consideration of Cummings. Southern Humanities study Spring. 1983 131-42. Jarrell, Randall. Th e Profession of Poetry. Partisan Review Fall. 1950 724-31. Knight, G. Wilson. The Starlit Dome-Studies in the Poetry of Vision. New York Barnes and Noble Inc., 1960. Maurer, Robert E. Latter-Day Notes on E. E. Cummingss Language. E. E. Cummings A Collection of Critical Essays. 1972 79-99. Vivante, Leone. side Poetry and its Contribution to the Knowledge of a Creative Principle. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Wesolek, George. E. E. Cummings A Reconsideration. Renascence Autumn. 1965 3-8. Williams, Meg Harris. Inspiration in Milton and Keats. Totowa Barnes and Noble Books, 1982.