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    E.E Cummings Poetry is a place where you can break the rules and nobody breaks the rules better than E.E cummmings. E.E Cummings was born in Cambridge Massachusetts, in 1894. His full name was Edward Estlin Cummings. After graduating from Harvard in 1917, Cummings went and joined in at the World War 1 to be in the ambulance corps. To begin, with E.E cummings sees visual techniques with spaces and parenthesis in document A in his poem, because he tries to let the reader know and to understand what

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    “she being Brand / -new” by E. E. Cummings In the poem, “she being Brand/ -new” by E.E. Cummings, the writer has chosen to use symbols and unique capitalization in parts of the poem to reference a sexual interaction with a woman. The opening sentence using a capital B in “she being Brand/ -new” (lines 1-2) leads the reader into the idea that the woman he is with is a virgin and untouched. He never speaks of his actual sexual experience, but gives readers an almost humorous ride of his sexual encounter

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    E.E. Cummings: An Amazing Poet E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 and died on September 3, 1962. Cummings received his B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University. Many experiences have influenced Cummings writing. For example, Cummings left the U.S.A. to become a French volunteer ambulance driver in WWI. He became a P.O.W. for suspicion of being a spy. He also was able to meet Pablo Picasso. Furthermore, E.E. Cummings is a poet before his time due to his amazing poetry

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    was E.E Cummings? Why did he write? What did he achieve? A poet like E.E Cummings is one who will not be quickly forgotten. Just at a quick glance his poems are nonsensical, fascinating, and altogether mystical. His various use of different poetic strategies and structural choices allow a reader to spend a lot of time analyzing his poems and reading between the lines. E.E. Cummings, although strange, is very famous and recognized for his supple use of interconnectivity in his works. Cummings was

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    E. E Cummings 'Moo Woo'

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    “Moo Woo” Have you ever wanted to read an actual thrilling poem? Well E.E Cummings is your guy. E.E Cummings’s real name is Edward Estlin Cummings, He was born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, He studied and started his career at Harvard University. E.E Cummings goes as far as using Visual Techniques and Sound Techniques to write amazing meaningful poems. Having no one to believe in him. He started offering money to people to publish his books. Later on, he demonstrated everybody wrong and now

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    the living hell out of me --” e.e cummings, “a total stranger.” e.e. cummings expressing his words and phrasing in this verse could describe how he makes others feel when reading his poetry. A total stranger that one has never met in person creates these set of uniquely versatile utterance all on a single page. One could say it “ knocks the hell out of them”, using his different and highly recognizable style that lacks both punctuation and capatilationation, cummings poetry is seen as iconic. Through

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    who you really are.” E.E Cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings was born In 1894 and Lived in Cambridge Massachusetts. E.E Cummings went to Harvard University. E.E Cummings died on September 3,1962 In North Conway, New Hampshire. E.E Cummings was a painter and painted lots of things. The Question is How does E.E Cummings create meaning using sight and sound? E.E Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using Visual techniques and Auditory techniques. In the beginning E.E Cummings used visual techniques

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    read a poem by E.E cummings? Did it sound strange or make sense? E.E Cummings full name is Edward Estlin Cummings. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1848. He created poems when he was a child and was able to read and write. How does E.E Cummings create meaning with sight and sound? E.E Cumings creates meaning with sight and sound by using Visual techniques and Auditory techniques. He creates meaning by using visual techniques with sound and sight. To begin with E.E Cummings used many visual

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    E.E. Cummings uses incomplete sentences and made up words to create meaning. How is that possible? Edward Estlin Cummings was born in 1894, in Cambridge Massachusetts. He went to Harvard to study Impressionism and Cubism. He has created many poems and has had a successful life. The question here is, How does E.E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using Visual and Auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E. Cummings uses visual techniques to create meaning

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    thinking. Women were not the only ones to questioning society during this time, both men and women had seen the use of chemical weapons, brutal battles, and an enormous waste of human life, people had “rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter “(e.e cummings, line 10 ) making it difficult to believe in a divine being or anything else, because who would let something that terrible happen? Due to this new lack in faith people came to question the moral code by which society ran. They became more concerned

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