E.E. Cummings: Defender of Individualism and Non-Conformity

A small town life is seen as many things to many different people. Some see living in a small town as a chance for more opportunities; others see it as a blueprint for insanity. However, as I read Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, I perceived his interpretation of said life, as a celebration. Thorton Wilder adds a variety of happy experiences and sense of community and familiarity, which I believe is why the habitants of the town love their home.

The different groups of people within the poem represent the different stages of life. At the beginning of the poem it talks about a young boy and his dog and swimmers. Several lines down it talks about “young lovers” and then families.

Poetry is considered to be a representational text in which one explores ideas by using symbols. Poetry can be interpreted many different ways and is even harder to interpret when the original author has come and gone. Poetry is an incredible form of literature because the way it has the ability to use the reader as part of its own power. In other words, poetry uses the feelings and past experiences of the reader to interpret things differently from one to another, sometimes not even by choice of the author. Two famous poets come to mind to anybody who has ever been in an English class, Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. Both of these poets have had numerous famous pieces due to the fact that they both

EE Cummings was and is still one of the most well-regarded and unique poets of all time. His poems were unusual, but his strange way of writing is what grabbed people’s attention and made him so special. Many incidents in Cummings’ life affected his poetry, his experiences and his personality, which could clearly be observed in the poems he wrote. Cummings became such a well-known poet due to the effect of his life events on his poetry, his peculiar writing style and his strong connection with the topics of love and lust. The struggles and successes of his life developed his poetry in a huge manner.

Edward Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. His father was a professor at Harvard, leading Cummings to attend Harvard from 1911-1915 (Poetry for Students vol.3). At a young age Cummings showed a strong interest in poetry and art. His first published poems appeared in the anthology “Eight Harvard poets” in 1917. During WW1 Cummings volunteered for the French-based ambulance service and he spent four years in an internment camp in Normandy on suspicion of treason (Poetry for Students vol.3). When Cummings returned to New York, he pursued painting but was drafted in 1918. During the 1920's and the 1930's Cummings traveled throughout Europe, developing careers in painting and poetry. He published his first poetry collection,

townspeople that they must change if they are going to eliminate the deep-rooted hatred and

Examples of imagery that show the carelessness of the people in this poem are, “spring summer autumn winter”(Cummings ln 3) and, “sun moon stars rain”(Cummings ln 8). This imagery was repeated throughout the poem and shows the changelessness of time. No matter how much time changed, things never changed and people were still careless. The poem tells a love story and also a sad story using anyone and noone to symbolize, figuratively, a person and ,literally, everyone. The quote,“One day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face)” (Cummings ln 25,26) shows figuratively the love story of a person named anyone dying and his wife noone stopping to kiss his face. It also shows the sad and careless story of how literally when anyone died noone stopped to kiss his face because no one cared that he had

According the social norms of the people of Munnsville, The Ward Brothers are illiterate and they live a life of simplicity. After the death of William, law enforcers make Delbert to sign some forms that he does not understand because of his illiteracy. This can be seen as a contrast in the social order between the rural setting and the modern urban setting. This notion is

Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894. Cummings was well-known as an American poet, playwright, novelist, and painter. He wrote approximately thousands of poems; a few novels; a few plays and several essays. His parents played an important role in shaping him into the great poet he is today. Although both his parents helped him throughout his life, his mother played the important role of encouraging him from an early age to write free verses and to keep many journals. He began writing poems as early as the 1900s and studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School. Cummings then went on to earn both his B.A. and his M.A. from Harvard University. Soon after he graduated, Cummings went on to serve in War world 1 overseas

Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly referred to as E. E. Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a source of vast knowledge and was responsible for many creative works other than his poetry, such as novels, plays, and paintings. He published his first book of poetry Tulips and Chimneys in 1923. Many of his poems are known for the visual effects they create through his unusual placement of words on the page, as well as, his lack of punctuation and capitalization. The manner in which Cummings arranges the words of his poems creates an image in the reader's mind of the topic he is discussing, such as a season or climbing stairs. His visual style also

Have you ever read one of E.E. Cummings’s poems, and could you figure out what is said? E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massecuites in 1894. He started writing poetry as a young boy, and he also painted. He was influenced by the major movements of his time, which were Cubism and Impressionism. E.E. Cummings graduated from Harvard in 1917 just as the United States was entering World War I. E.E. Cummings joined the ambulance corps after his graduation and traveled to Paris, France. While there he was exposed to the Paris arts scene, which helped develop his unique style. E.E. Cummings used unusual spelling, spacing, and punctuation to convey his unique visual and auditory techniques.

Cummings” pg.13). Cummings continued to publish volumes of poetry at a rate of approximately one every four or five years (“E.E. Cummings pg.14). The last honor involved giving a series of public talks; published as i: six Nonlecture (1953), they provide a succinct and charming summation of his life and personal philosophy. Two years later he received a National Book Award citation for poems 1923-1954, and two years after that he won the prestigious bollingen prize in poetry from Yale University (“E.E. Cummings” pg.15). (In his poetry he often ignored the rules of capitalization and has sometimes been referred to as e.e. Cummings) expanded the boundaries of poetry through typographic and linguistic experimentation (Frazee, “E.E. Cummings). An avoidance of capital letters and creative placement of punctuation soon became his trademarks. His experimental poetry took many forms, some amusing, some satirical, some beautiful, some profound, and some which did not make much sense (Frazee “E.E. Cummings”). Typical stylistic devices in his work include: running words together; scattering punctuation symbols cross the page; subverting the conventions of the English sentence; intentional misspellings and phonetic spellings and the invention of compound words such as “puddle-wonderful” (“E.E. Cummings”). However, this obvious experimentation is often combined with strict formal structures and traditional

E. E. Cummings, an author known for his various poems and other forms of artwork, wrote numerous works of poetry over a vast amount of subjects. While the subject matter of the poems differ, a few elements of Cummings' style stays the same in virtually all his poems, some of which is important and some of which is not. The fact that Cummings uses enjambment in his poetry is a stylistic trademark that however annoying its use may be is consistent. Other stylistic trademarks of Cummings' poetry are that Cummings has a control over the tone of each of his poems and that each of his poems has its theme located near the end of the poem. While these traits that may not be highlighted in most of the analysis of his poems, each does occur quite

Edward Estlin Cummings is a famous poet and novelist. A true man of the arts, he also enjoyed playwrights, painting, and drawing. His lifetime lasting from 1894-1962 was vivaciously lived! He spent a large portion of his life in his birth state, Massachusetts, although certain life events lead him beyond the United States. Cummings served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and was a volunteer in an ambulance unit as well. A great portion of his life was also dedicated to his Harvard education and multiple romantic relationships. Despite these things that took up most of his time, Cummings managed to find time for his passion, writing. E.E. Cummings’ unique style of writing is attributed to his free spirit, which amounted to all of

E.E. Cummings named the most popular voice of the twentieth century. His death struck the world and saddened many. Cumming, who wrote nearly 2900 poems, had a rather hard life. He inspired many to write poems.