Poetry is a place full of imagination and sometimes it is also full of bad grammar and poor punctuation and Edward Estlin Cummings is a poet with bad grammar. Edward Estlin Cummings or also known as E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1894. He went to Harvard University, where he then grew up to be a poet. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning is a question some people ask. E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques in his poems. To begin with, E.E. Cummmings usually uses visual techniques to give his poem a bigger meaning to it. The way he made the words spaced out and where he placed them made the poem in Document B or “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” look like the legs of a leaping grasshopper which is what the poem mostly focuses on. In Document A or “l(a” …show more content…
For example, in Document C or “in Just-” he uses auditory techniques by not putting spaces in between some of the word. This makes you have to say the words really fast without stopping and makes the poem more fast and sound just a little bit more cheerful. He also uses assonance in the words “puddle-wonderful” and “mud-luscious” which probably shows that the author enjoys this during spring time which is the season the poem is set in. Another example, is Document D or “the sun come up-up-up in the opening” in this poem he uses Onomatopoeia he uses this because he describes some of the noises made by the animals in this poem. He also uses Alliteration in this part “ree ray rye roh” (Doc D) he uses the same letter in the beginning of each of these words by showing what sound this certain animal makes. This connects because it shows the different ways he uses auditory techniques in both Document C and Document D. In conclusion, Edward Estlin Cummings does use optical and audible techniques in his poem to help the reader better understand the meaning of his