The Enormous Room, By E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings is often known as having many talents. Although he is mainly remembered as a poet, he also published many books, drawings, paintings, and plays. His individuality led him to abandon traditional forms and structures, causing him to experiment with many techniques and styles. He often disregarded punctuation in an order to allow the reader a more active role into the reading process of his work. He also played around with misspellings, suggesting the world of advertising and entertainment. Cummings chose to write mainly in

One of E.E. Cummings most famous poems is “Humanity I Love You”, a free verse poem about all of the faults of humanity (hellopoetry.com). The poems title is a both a lie and a contradiction that becomes apparent when you read the last 4 words “humanity I hate you” (Humanity I Love You stanzas 5&6). This is just one example of E.E. Cummings unique writing style. A lot of his poems were about sex or strange subjects such as “The Day of the Spoken Lyric is past” where E.E. Cummings sais “The poem which has at last taken its place does not sing itself; it builds itself, three dimensionally, gradually, subtly, in the consciousness of the experiencer"(Cummings). In the 1950’s cummings began another career as a reader of his poetry to audiences in New York and college campuses, becoming the most popular performer of the academic arts, after Robert Frost. During his life time he had received many honors that came in many forms. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1951, a collected edition of his poems, a special citation from the National Book Award Committee in 1955, and the Bollingen Prize in 1958. EE Cummings had a very successful career until his death in 1962 by a stroke at Joy farm.

In William Barney’s article, “The Quest for Room,” he analyzes the differing opinions between the North and South regarding the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired Western territories. The author argues that the West would have been important to slaveholders as a place to expand slavery if the territories had not been free-soil. The reason for this article was to show us how prominent the sectional differences were in the nineteenth century because of the argument over slavery. This, in turn, led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union as they formed the Confederacy; this dug the nation into a deep-pitted civil war.

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,

Who is E.E. Cummings and why is his poetry different and strange than other poets?

The Room, by Russell E. Mullen, is an account of the author's racial journey. Russell is a Caucasian raised in Central Florida, and being a baby boomer born in 1957, he experienced the racial conflicts that existed during the civil rights movement. As a child, he constantly heard negative comments about Black Americans from most of his relatives and other people around him, but he just couldn't understand the reason for the racial discrimination. His father was the only one he knew that never said anything bad about the African-American people and this got him more confused. Consequently, he sought answers to many questions popping in his head.

Harvey Milk once said “it takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” He lived in a time when there was discrimination of homosexuals and he experienced it; being the first gay man elected to Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. In the 1940’s and 50’s homosexual people were discriminated it was viewed as a disease and was described as “sociopathic personality disturbance. Homosexual activities were illegal and people were imprisoned for having consensual sex with another man. Despite the dangers and difficulties, homosexual people found a way to meet and confide in themselves. Most wrote books as a way to express themselves; it gave

James Baldwin once said, “Everybody 's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ” From the moment babies are born, most parents treat boys and girls differently. One study says that parents have different expectations for boys and girls as early as 24 hours from birth, according to Susan D. Witt of the University of Akron. According to healthychildren.org, infants become aware of their sex within in the first year of life. Between ages 1 and 2, children begin to notice the physical differences between males and females, and typically by their third birthday they are able to easily identify themselves as a boy or a girl. People are faced with many obstacles that alter their life. Just like the many controversies in society, “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin discusses a young man being gay in a society and a family who are simply not ready to accept his sexual orientation and neither does he. This fiction also emphasizes the battle that he faces with self-acceptance. Gender identity and American norms in society is widely discussed almost every day. Americans are becoming more open and accepting of the LGBT community, as well as against the LGBT community.

Giovanni’s Room written by James Baldwin was written in the 1950’s. A book about love, homosexuality, and the struggles of both. During the 1950’s being a homosexual wasn’t exactly a desirable thing to be, in America or England. The fifties was a hard time for homosexuals and bisexuals. In Europe families were starting back up as the men returned home from World War II, due to this being gay was seen as a threat to the typical family. This was a time in which one could go to prison for their sexual orientation and the sexual acts they pursued. Chain arrest could be made as well, where one would get arrested, questioned on if they knew other gays and if they did and could identify them, then their sentence would be lesser or easier (CITATION). So as imagined “coming out of the closet” wasn’t a thing that many wanted to do, they wanted to stay hidden. The phrase “coming out of the closet” or even just the term “closet” represents an idea where people hid their sexuality. If one were to “come out of the closet” they would announce or make it known in public that they were accepting their sexuality and letting others see it as well. In Giovanni’s Room we as readers can see a lot of this hiding, confusion, and struggle with the idea of being gay, especially with the character of David. David uses Giovanni’s room as his own sort of “closet”.

His early experiments in poetry whilst still a child were encouraged by liberal parents to whom Cummings remained close (“E.E. Cummings”). After an unsuccessful stint in private school, Cummings father switched him to the Agassiz school, of which Maria Baldwin was the head. Here he displayed a talent for memorizing the poems of Longfellow and Emerson and, before his teens, wrote some simple,

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

Cummings uses metaphors to compare his lover to things that are incomparable, exaggerating how much his lover means to him in the following phrases, “no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)” and ”i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)”. The repetition of “no” shows his selflessness; he states that everything of his, including his fate, belongs to his lover. Cummings also uses personification to express how divine his lover is. He states that she is beyond the moon and the sun in the phrase, “and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is

In a Room with a View, by E.M Forster, there are many contrasting settings where the story takes place. Every different place can be associated with different feelings, thoughts, and developments. One of the more obvious setting contrasts are Florence and Summer Street. Florence represents things like passion and growth while Summer Street has more of a discontented feeling.