Analysis of Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

“Small town big heart,” they say locked away behind their cold immaculate castle gates that rest on the remains of the previous farmland and plains. The collective heart beats but only at a convenient time suiting parties involved. “A place where everyone matters,” they utter as their motto in indistinguishable monotone voices. The people are too wrapped up in their everyday lives to ever be concerned about their neighbor, they look through life with gilded glasses. It’s as if a fog had descended slowly creeping into their view distorting what they once held most dear.

“The gentle green hills which on either hand enclosed the village, tufted here and there with magnificent trees, the village itself, straggling and wide, each cottage being far apart from its neighbors and each ornamented with flower beds and shrubberies; these with a lovely stream which would through the valley, formed, as far as my memory may be trusted, one of the most exquisite panoramas, on which it has ever been my good fortune to

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.

Indeed. Now you understand. That is what it means to be alive- to know without knowing (Wilder, 66). To interpret this further, this means that humans are just living without taking in their surroundings and realizing how lucky they are to be alive. "Our Town" also encourages the reader to live in the present and realize how precious these fleeting moments are.

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.

Both of her parents were born in small towns, but got educated and then settled in big cities. They would tell their offspring that life in the city was far better than in the country. Little wonder their daughter Jane loved the urban life and its energy. Sadly, beginning

This village is a repeditate place, the same mundane things happening every day, and this is echoed by the mood. The story focuses on day-to-day occurrences, resulting in the mood being the same thing- simplistic and tame. After the Janjaweed attack the village, killing many of her family and friends an displacing Amira

This text quote also shows us that they only way to truly have fun is to be a pretty.   Another theme that the author is trying to get across is about our society and classes. Uglyville, New Pretty Town, and Crumblyville are extreme forms of the cool kids table, and the "geek table". Like the real world, it's hard for a cool kid to be friends with a geek and vise versa.

The era was famed for its wealth, opulence and parties (Exactly what the neighbour appears to have and do). The short paragraphs serve to represent his fast paced lifestyle, the details flying past, as his nights do through all his partying. The vocabulary used is quite specialized, using a multitude of adjectives giving an insight on the life of the neighbour. The author has cleverly, through his use of adjectives, made the reader feel the summer atmosphere, and feel the carefree attitude of all the partygoers. This method of using such detailed description forces the reader to feel intrigued, and to want to read on and learn more. These adjectives embody a visual form, and they are occasionally comparative ‘Lights grow brighter’, ‘Laughter is easier minute by minute’, ‘More swiftly’

According to Census data, 35% of people who live in the Urban Suburbs have at least Rural undergraduate degree. Tailing close behind are the big cities, with about 32% having a bachelor degree. Rural America however lags far behind with less than 20% having earned a bachelor degree (Press 2014). In 2017, The New York Times reported, that 29% of rural college-age teens were enrolled in college in comparison to 47% of urban college -age teens (Denby, 2018). There is no denying that rural America is consistently underrepresented in participation of higher education compared to their urban counterparts. In this paper, I will argue that that there is a clear opportunity gap that influences rural students in

The story starts off and fools the reader by painting a vivid picture of a happy summer day and makes it feel like nothing can go wrong. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a summer day; the flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green” (1). This is a shocking contrast compared to the end of the story. The openness of the beginning with the “clear and sunny” morning to the very last paragraphs “…she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her” (77) gives the reader a beautiful scene and an ugly, appalling ending.

The town is described in two different ways, at first there is a positive, upbeat joyous depiction of this town, full of celebration music and singing. But also

Edward Estlin Cummings, better known as E.E. Cummings, was a 20th century modernist poet who experimented with form punctuation, spelling and syntax. He often wrote in sonnet and fee verse about nature, death, love and human experience. In his poems “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and “old age sticks” Cummings exemplifies imagery through unusual syntax and typography to convert the themes of his poems. The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is a love story about two people who were very much different from the rest of the town.

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

In his poem “Acquainted with the Night,” Robert Frost describes a character who spends his nights wandering the city streets. The reader can infer from both Frost’s tone, and the time of day in which the speaker chooses to walk, that the character is in a world of isolation. This is especially evident in the lines, “When far away an interrupted cry/ Came over houses from another street,/ But not to call me back or say good-by” (Frost 898). From this line, the reader understands that the poem’s speaker feels as if he is completely isolated in the world. In a similar way, E. E. Cummings poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” expresses the loneliness felt by people of this era. Cummings creative use of pronouns gives the poem a double entendre. The characters, anyone and noone, can represent their literal meanings, or a single man and woman. Therefore, when Cummings writes that “noone loves him more by more,” he could mean that anyone is being loved greatly, or not at all. This loneliness is expressed yet again when Cummings informs the reader, “Women and men (both little and small)/ cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 922). The works of both Frost and Cummings both portray the hardship that accompanied the feeling of loneliness during the modern