E.E. Cummings is a very influential and well-known poet. His works are best known for innovations in style and structure. Starting out, he was an “American poet and painter who first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his eccentric punctuation and phrasing (Britannica Biographies, par.1).” Cummings, who lived in Paris and New York, became even more known for poems that played wildly with form and spacing, punctuation, capitalization, overall grammar and pacing. “Cummings's moods were alternately satirical and tough or tender and whimsical. He frequently used the language of the streets and material from burlesque and the circus (Britannica Biographies,par.5).” Also, most of his poems are about finding or losing love, or finding himself. In his poem, “If”, Cummings is saying that everything must be exactly the way it is or you and I would not be who we are. It is more than wishing the world was like we'd like it to be, it's more a case of saying if anything were different, we'd be different too, or saying we are the way we are because of the way things are. He's also telling us why wishing things were different is a losing game and waste of time; that it takes acceptance that things are the way they are supposed to be, and that wishing differently is a wish we wouldn't really want fulfilled, unless we'd change who we are. In the end, he is basically saying that we never become what we are meant to be. Which isn't always a bad thing. In the second poem, “This is the Garden, Colors Come and Go”, Cummings begins his poem with “This is the garden” and repeats this phrase two more times. By repeating this, it forces the reader to constantly be reminded of the garden’s importance. The garden is youth; the repetition proves its importance when the poem talks of Death. Death is the factor that takes away the colors from the scene it sucks the beauty from our bodies when we age. Cummings only