Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! or, “Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future”. In his poem “i will wade out”, E.E. Cummings displays this ardent perspective through the narrator’s point of view, whose enlightenment causes him to shift from indecisiveness to proactivity in order to control certain aspects of his life. Through the use of concrete form, figurative language and diction, and certain syntactical choices, Cummings conveys his overall theme: that one must be dynamic in an ever changing world. Cummings’ usage of concrete form portrays his underlying message that one must be engaged to have any chance of controlling one’s life. The structure of the poem starts off with one short sentence: “i will wade
