Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town by E.E. Cummings

The poem is formed of eight stanzas, each one is six lines long except for the fifth stanza which is an octet. The stanzas are formed of sets of three rhyming couplets in the

The poem is composed in free verse and it has no rhyme scheme or meter. It is 51 lines long and takes no particular structure with fluctuated line lengths all throughout the work. It is told as story from what can be accepted is a young boys' viewpoint. There are points in the story where it makes it clear the story is being told later on, as in line 8 where it is composed "Even/a quarter century later…." however a significant part of the story is told in the current state. This change makes readers feel as though we are

The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings talks about the cycle of life and the importance of structure, symbolism, and language of the poem. For instance, the poem has nine stanzas, which has a rhyming pattern of AABC. The rhythm of the poem is significant for it supports one of themes, the cycle of life. Cumming uses season to explain the poem's progress. “spring summer autumn winter” (3) and “sun moon stars rain” (8) symbolizes time passing, which represents life passing. In the poem, as the seasons and skies rotate, life continues along with them. In addition, the uses of the words “snow” (22), “buried” (27), “was by was” (28), and “day by day” (29) leading to death. Towards the end of the poem, the depression of

Throughout the poem the tone and harmony is showing many different moods including shyness, anger and calmness. An example of shyness is at the start of the poem “softy, silently it swishes”, an example of anger is in the middle of the poem “it thumps, it sprays it rips at shores, its ozone spray”, and finally at the end of the poem calmness is shown, “it spends its strength, it sings, it sighs. The wave recedes”. One aspect of the poem I find intriguing is the alliteration and personification. For example, “it sighs, it sings, it seeks”.

In the poem, the contrast of hard negative connotations and soft sensitive words indicates his purpose of writing. Examples of soft words are “gently its touch, rouse, kind old sun, whispering, full-nerved, still warm” Examples of hard words are “snow, clays of a cold star, clay grew tall, fatuous sunbeams, break earth’s sleep at all”. The word clay reminds us that we came from clay and we return to dust. The choice of cold star probably refers to earth before it was inhabited which was also expressed in the bible “thou hast made me of clay and wilt thou bring me unto dust again”. The word fatuous shows the anger and frustration of the writer. Whispering has the feeling of anxiety and dread. The last line is an old existential question of “why are we here?” With the use of sound effects, themes, technique and language, the poem clearly shows the genuine emotions of empathy, waste and the futility of

Imagery is used throughout the poem to emphasize the finite time humans have on the earth, and how every second should be appreciated. Lines two and three are the speaker’s first use of imagery. Diction in line two illustrates the speaker’s recognition of the phenomena, which is snow in October. The phrase “But this morning” (line 2) highlights that the meaning is not a mundane morning. Most people would be agitated that winter came early, but the speaker seems to be grateful. Furthermore, the speaker describes the snow in a pleasant tone, seen in this line “pale muslin/ stretched across the grass” (line 2-3). This emphasizes that the speaker appricates the early

the poet also is uses rhyming in stanza 1, using negative words like breath, death, and easy and dizzy. Additionally the poet also uses figurative language when the poet says “You beat time on my head“ because you can’t beat anyone with time and beating is violence which in most people is seen as being scary. Finally the poet is also very descriptive when the poet says

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”(Victor Hugo). 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, diction, symbolism, and motifs.The novel was about how Jay Gatsby had love for a girl named Daisy and Gatsby threw these random parties in which no one was invited to. The poem was about how the years were passing slowly over a period of time and it was the beginning or ending of someone’s life. The main characters were Anyone and Noone and people really did not even care about death. Both selections are about love and reveal that it is wonderful and hurtful at times. Although love is careless in many ways.

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town,” a ballad by E. E. Cummings, was first published in 1940. Cummings is commonly associated with his peculiar ideas about punctuation; he lacked punctuation and structure frequently. Being one of the best known poets of all time, Cummings creates a language that is relatable to just about anyone. I think this poem is about a small community where everyone is concerned with his or her own actions, never caring about neighbors or other members of the community.

At first glance, the geometry of the poem stands out. The way the letters are arranged make the poem look sort of like a window or door. I observed that the poem is physically divided into five sections, each with its own traits. The first section is composed by the first line of the poem, while the second is lines two to five, the third is line six, fourth is lines seven to eleven, and the fifth is the final line.

“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein is a very simple poem. With only three stanzas and 16 lines, there appears to be no rhyme scheme. Packed into those 16 lines lays a powerful message, though it's not clear as day. The poem is literally about how before the dark and dull streets, and beyond where the sidewalk ends, lies a place where it's colorful, bright, and peaceful. The only way to find this place is to follow the arrows made by the children. Also, the author’s tone adds to the overall meaning of the poem. Lines such as, “And there the grass grows soft and white,” “To cool in the peppermint wind,” develop a calm, relaxed tone early on in the poem. The use of colors, descriptive words that creates an image in your head, and the

“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 poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and ends up with a weak beat. The first and third lines in each stanza have iambic tetrameter, but the second and fourth lines do not contain any consistent meter. The feet generate a rhythm

The form of the poem reflects the spontaneity that an individual can have within the restricted views of mainstream society. The ungrammatical structure of the poem endorses Cummings views of being a nonconformist, as he promotes that he does not need to abide by society’s restrictions on language and grammar in order to portray and write a story. Through his experimentation with poetic form and language, Cummings is able to promote his philosophy on individualism in ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’.

Cummings' casual and vernacular punctuation and repetition in "[anyone lived in a pretty town]" narrows the gap between himself and the readers by conveying his message more authentically. He applied plenty of parentheses into his poem and relies heavily on enjambment while two complete sentences and seven parentheses appeared. Authors often use parentheses to make comment and emphasize a point, so in Cummings' casual, he adds a large amount of comments to his content. As an illustration, he writes, "anyone lived in a pretty how town / (with up so floating many bells down)", and the content in the parentheses comments to the previous line saying that life and death occurs all the time in this town. Moreover, many alternated repetition, those