Edward Estlin Cummings was an extraordinary poet who flourished in an extraordinary period. His early biography was similar to some other famous writers like Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. He served as an American volunteer in World War I, fell in love with Paris, and returned there for a time after the war.

Cummings became an artist and poet, and was unconventional in both fields. His best poetry is wondrous. It expresses his love of life and beauty and women, and his refusal to succumb to conventionality. His worst poetry may be irritating or embarrassing to some. He was a political conservative and a bigot. E. E. Cummings probably did not write any bad love poems. He wrote love poetry that managed to be romantic without being sentimental. He was not afraid to write about sex either. 

A message repeated often by E. E. Cummings, was that science/logic and poetry/love/emotions don't mix, and the one cannot be applied to the other. We will not understand the art behind Michaelangelo's David by smashing the marble statue and doing a chemical analysis of the pieces. It is possibly pointless to try to  understand the poetry of E. E. Cummings by reading an intricate "analysis."