EE Cummings - Anyone lived in a pretty howtown and Maggie and millie and molly and may

Explication It is the juxtaposition of this old, highly rigid, formulated, classical style with this very modern, personal subject matter that continues to intrigue readers of Robinson's works to this day. This next poem, considered by some to be Robinson's finest work, is a perfect example of this conflict of form and content, and how it melds to form Robinson's singular poetic style.

Cummings utilizes alliteration throughout this poem to give an understanding of how feelings can change people’s priorities. The title and the first line of the poem emphasizes on the word “feeling” and “first”. This alliteration between those two words stresses how feelings should be first in order of importance. In line 14 we can also see the use of alliteration between the words “laugh”, “leaning”, and “life”. The “l” connects those words together creating a better flow in the poem. Another example is the sound of the “w” such as “will”, “while”, “wholly”, and “world” are connected together to show his rhythm of emotions even though these words are placed in separate lines. He refuses to follow the rules of syntax which makes this poem more appealing for readers to actually analyze and visualize how cummings is not only talking about feelings, but comparing feelings to grammar.

You would not ever think of using your two main senses such as sight and sound in writing, correct? Well E.E Cummings has defied the odds of basic and traditional poetry. E.E Cummings takes advantage of these various techniques to create a completely new meaning to poetry - but how does he do this? For example, when I read one of his poems for the first time, I perceived it as different and peculiar, but as I began to look more into his poetry, it displayed his techniques to construct a unique and expressive writing style.

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.

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.

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town” of E. E. Cummings is about an infamous man in a particular town. Writing the poem, Cummings’ purpose is to convey to the public a cruel fact, that people become less aware of each other in this society.

Next to of Course God America I by E.E. Cummings e. e. cummings' poem, "next to of course god america i," is a wonderful example of stylistic variation in a text. Once again, we see his skill and mastery at manipulating the English language in order to foreground a thought

E. E. Cummings was a poet, but he broke all the rules of poetry. Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1984. He also attended Harvard University. E. E. Cummings had no choice but to print and pay for his own poetry being nobody would publish them for him. How does E. E Cummings use sight and sound to create meaning? E. E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques.

“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

Life in society becomes quite busy as individuals age. From rushing to work or school, there is rarely time for anything else. Therefore, because of the busy lives individuals have, it causes them to be incapable of focussing on the little things in life. E.E. Cummings, reveals this as the cycle of life in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. Cummings use of dictation creates an abnormal setting of life, which reflects reality. Not only, does Cummings create such a setting but also uses pronouns, as a dual meaning, to suggest people whose names were unknown. In the poem, no one is a man and anyone is a woman. These pronouns represent these two individuals because it exhibits that no one actually knows them because they are too busy with their

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

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

Cummings’ impressive education consists of a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Harvard, in which he graduated near the top of his class. He submitted many of his poems to the newspaper at Harvard, which sparked his interest towards a career as a poet. When his first poem was published, the publisher left all the letters of E.E. Cummings’ name lowercase. Cummings soon adopted this as his own personal trademark. The style of Cummings’ writing was what made his poems so distinctive. No matter what the topic, he always incorporated a lyrical flow to the poem. Cummings “experimented with typography, slang, dialect, jazz rhymes, and jagged lines” (Anderson et al). By exploring the possibilities of poetry, Cummings was able to create poems that have a beat that corresponds with the tone, mood, and theme of the poem.

Because the modern era accompanied a time 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

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”