 "EIMI" was reckoned to be "a large poem" by a "penguin-Dante" in Marianne Moore's review of the work in "Poetry" magazine, 1933.Moore judges the book to be an "'enormous dream' about the proletarian fable" in which Cummings shifts grammatical and lyrical styles "as a seal that has been swimming right-side-up turns over and swims on its back for a time.