I thank you god
i thank YOU God for most this 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 of 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)
-E.E. Cummings
Like all of E.E. Cummings' poems, this one has a very unusual style and many grammatical errors like Cormac McCarthy uses in "The Road." This poem thanks God for everything natural and infinite and positive- or, as he says it, "yes." He asks how humans who interact with everything that is "no" can doubt the existence of God. He is thankful for believing and having his ears and eyes awake and open.
The antecedant scenario may have been a renewal of his faith in his god.
Using parenthesis, colons, semi-colons, and commas (or lack thereof) gives accentuation to certain words and phrases. He brings attention to "YOU" by putting it in all capital letters to show that his thankfulness is large and directed at his god. He does not not capitalize "i" or any other letters except for "God" and "You." This makes God seem to be more significant than the narrator or E.E. Cummings himself.
This poem is pretty easy to understand, but I'm not exactly sure that I understand the second stanza completely.
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