Pretty How Town By E. Cummings

Cummings pioneering eclecticism is best exemplified through one of his greatest known works, "anyone lived in a pretty how town". In this work, Cummings uses a variety of literary devices such as personification, symbolism, and rhetorical questions to convey the themes of nonconformity and unconditional, everlasting love. "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a narrative poem, describing the life of its central character "anyone" and his wife "no one

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Me talk pretty one day is an essay written by David Sedaris in 2005. It tells the story of the authors to return to school at the age of forty-one and about his experience with learning French in Paris with a very strict teacher. The theme of the essay is David Sedaris attitude towards learning a new language. Although he seems to have an attitude towards learning French he moves all the way to France with only one month of French lessons as his previous experience with the language which gives the essay some humor. The language in the essay is very informal which is supported by him talking about own experience. He uses a lot of imagery and tends to exaggerate his experiences. For example, it's everyone into the language pool, sink, or

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The plot of "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is simple, but it is the choices of language that makes this poem complex. The story begins with "anyone," which can be considered as a specific person. Anyone is a guy who the "Women and men," or the "someones" and "everyones," of the town don't care about, because he is different than they are. Although, the children of the town can see the love of "Anyone" and "Noone," but even they begin to dislike the difference of Anyone as "down they forgot as up they grew." (10) Anyone and Noone soon later are buried side by side, while the people carry on living their lives, learning nothing from Anyone and Noone.

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

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).

“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.

“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.

In the first line it becomes evident how the author perceives the “monstrous” mankind. Despite being a human himself, he acknowledges how much it is turning evil and is hopeless to be recovered. It is too late to turn back as people are already diseased by “progress” which “is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond)” (2-3). Cummings incorporates the idea that mankind is masking their true “poor flesh” (10) selves by getting too caught up on wealth and turn to pointless innovation causing the world to be depleted of the original state of man. Wishing to visit the “good universe next door” (14) was thought to be the only possible way to go back to before progress took over by the writer. The cycle that is created by reading

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

In the novel Paper Towns by John Green there are three settings. One of the places is high school, another is Sea World, and the last one is Agloe, New York. The book starts off at high school. Quentin’s mom drops him off at school in the morning on her way to work.

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

In “Love & Friendship”, Whit Stilltman (“Damsels in Distress”) presents us a witty dramatization of Jane Austen’s epistolary novel ‘Lady Susan’, dated from 1871.

The novel Paper Towns by John Green is a New York Times bestseller loved by many teens and adults. Quentin Jacobsen is the narrator of the story and his crush is Margo Roth Spiegelman, even since he was a kid. They have quite a strange relationship. In part one of the novel, Margo convinces Quentin to go on a vengeful night out adventure. After they prepared for the revenge quest, Quentin says he does not want to get in trouble. He explains to Margo that he would like to have a good time, but not to the expense of his future. Margo finds that subject not interesting at all and responds, “Every moment of your life is lived for the future…,” (Green, 33). For the most part, I agree with Margo greatly and I think this quote is very relatable.