Embodied Love: Cognitive Poetics and the Somatic Imagery in E. E. Cummings’ Love Poetry
NIU journal of humanities. June 23, 2026 Atyaf Abdulrazzaq Hemad
The data of this research project provides an in-depth study of cognitive poetics and the mechanisms of somatic imagery and embodied love in the lyrical oeuvre of E. E. Cummings. This love poetry is historically denied by the early formalist critics either of being sentimentally conventional or just typographical eccentricities, but is here reinstated as an extremely refined phenomenological...