Analysis Of Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town

Born just over five pounds in Jacksonville's St Vincent's Hospital, Ronnie grew up in one of the toughest households in one of the toughest areas of Jacksonville, Florida's Westside "Shanty Town." This toughness permeated his entire being, almost from day one. Growing up on Mull Street, Ronnie was the undisputed king among the boys who would gather to play baseball or football -- games that usually degenerated into raucous free-for-alls because of a missed catch or disputed strike. These games introduced Ronnie with his first love -- baseball. He hoped that sports would rescue him from Shanty Town and recalled in 1975, "I went as far as playing American Legion ball. The next step would have been AA. I played center field. I had the highest

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of great Gatsby and E.E Cummings, author of  “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” convey similar themes of sadness, carelessness, and love. Mostly love & sadness. Both selections reveal that not everyone is there for you as they say they are through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism. Both selections are about love and reveal that death is real.

In the poems, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, and We Wear the Mask, the authors express how people mask their true feelings to divide the fact of being a burden. Which leads to “Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 5-6).

The observation I found most interesting in the poem, “Singapore”, by Mary Oliver is an anomaly, in which she briefly deviates from the poem’s initial setting and subject and then seamlessly returns back to it. This interjection could at first be seen as nothing more than an unwarranted description of what the author feels poems should entail- birds, waterfalls, and happiness- but deeper analysis finds that this interruption is still applicable to the poem’s overall theme of life’s peculiar inequity. This is because the desire to, “...stand in a happy place, in a poem” that the author notes stems from her confusion and discomfort with the beautiful woman she finds scrubbing toilets (line 13). She feels the pretty woman deserves

and that he believes them. The poem also translates into how living in the city is toilsome and that the city is unrelenting. On the other hand it shows how the city can be prosperous and happy with the city’s disadvantages. in the second half of the poem it’s telling how nomatter what is wrong with the city, the people are still proud of who they are.

Cummings “Anyone lived in a pretty how town,” is one of many examples of modernist poetry. The writer uses many elements of modernism throughout the poem, the usage of poetic devices and themes of modernism are very well exhibited. This poem displays unorthodox structures and improper grammar, as well as time manipulation to convey the deeper truth of humanity’s existence. The true meaning of birth, death, and all that lies in the middle, this is the natural cycle and the order in which life goes. And the destruction that leads to the ultimate death of the natural cycle and order of life when our lives are most monstrous, filled with routine tasks, unachieved ambition, and lack of an implosive lifestyle. This style of writing forces the reader to consider life in a different aspect, to rethink the true meaning of living, which is infected with a sickness of likeness and lack of excitement. The underlining message to all his readers is to live life to the fullest one of the many lessons modernism

As a young child, my mom would always read me the poems from “Where the Sidewalk Ends’’. I remember being so intrigued in the story that my mind was adrift in a sea of thoughts and imagination. Rather than listening

In the poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, author, E. E. Cummings sometimes uses words in very unusual ways. Line 7, which says “they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same” is no exception (line 7). To start off we need to decipher who the “they” Cummings is talking about in this line. The “they” Cummings is talking about here is made known in line 5. Cummings points out that “Women and men (both little and small)” are the “they” who “sowed their isn’t” and the “they” that “reaped their same” (line 5 & 7). If you think about line 7 from the farming standpoint you can infer that “sow” could mean to plant something and “reap” could mean to harvest what was planted. Now, let’s talking about how “they sowed their isn’t” (line 7). To sow something, you have to have a

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town”. This was a very touching poem created by a man who had a playful way of writing poems E.E. cummings was the author’s name he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894, he was one of the most innovative poets of his time and he had a very distinctive personal style method to his writings. “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” Mr. Cummings used the seasons to represent time with the couple as of the changing of the seasons to mean years have passed also as the couple being together mr cummings addressed them as nobodys until they got together nothing else mattered to them both but each other it was nice to see that they were madly in love with each other. The rest of the world to them seemed

The two main inspirations I had while writing this poem were the town in which I grew up, and my family. Those are two of the things that I hold closest to me and I will carry with me throughout my entire life and wherever I go. I truly believe that growing up in the small town and tight-knit community that I did was a major influence on who I am and my perspective on life. I grew up in Hampton, IA. Even though it might not seem like something to brag about or people don’t think that is special, I do. My other main inspiration, even more than the place I grew up, is my family. I hold my family above anything else and there is no doubt that I am who I am today because of them. I do not know where I would be without them or who I would be without

Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town describes the daily lives of the people who live in a certain, nameless town. The town is not named and neither are any of the townspeople, other than to give titles such as “man,” “woman,” “child.” These anonymous people living in the anonymous town do nothing notable; in fact, they are all fairly unremarkable as they go about their daily lives. The poem addresses all the seasons of life that the

town I grew up in is racist. My town is very segregated. We have train tracks that divide the east side where the majority of blacks live from the rest of the town. One time I had to go accept an award from the police. They were having the award ceremony at the big police station right on the edge of East Side. Although I was going to a police station with almost more than half of the town’s police force, everyone I told, especially my mother, were concerned for me to be over there. My mom would not let me take my nice car either. I thought she was being silly.

There are several features that resemble those of a lyrical novel. In the beginning of the story, a passage depicts the peacefulness of the town by the use of the setting of the town, with objects that are normally associated with beauty and serenity. Such was seen in, ‘there were peach blossoms there was sure to be a home, and walls of yellow earth and pitch-black tiles…in harmony with the surroundings on every side,

The first stanza begins by introducing one of the main characters “anyone” who lives in a pretty how town or, more simply, a city. Cummings then introduces the symbolism of the bells and the seasons; the bells are not explicitly defined, one may interpret them as markers of time as they are featured in various other parts of the poem. Similarly, the seasons are also markers of time, the first meaning to signify the beginning of Anyone’s life or alternatively, the beginning of the poem. On the fourth line there is heavy alliteration of the “d” with “he sang his didn’t he danced his did”; this adds some rhythm and dynamic to an otherwise confusing syntax and flow. One way in which this line can be interpreted is that Anyone speaks or