...E.E. Cummings Stewart, Mekala Freshmen Research Report Mr. D. Freitag 24 February 2012 Work Cited “Cummings, Edward Estel (1894). “The Reader’s Encyclopedia 1955. ‘Cummings, E.E.,” World Authors 1900-1950 (199610: Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson). Web. 27 Jan. 2012. “E.E. Cummings 1894-1962” American Writers I 1972. “E.E. Cummings In Depth” Authors Depth Silver Level 200. Kennedy, Richard S. ‘E.E. Cummings 1894-1962.” The Health Anthology of American Literature Second Edition Volume 2. Ed. Paul Lauter Lingston: D. Health and Company, 1994. Edward Estel Cummings was not much a modernist as one who dressed up in traditional uniforms (Cummings E.E 4). Cummings was a daring uncompromised and consistent (Cummings E.E. 4). Cummings regarded poetry as not much a product but more as a process (Cummings E.E. 2). The skinny shakings down the page of his poems underscores his vitality (Cummings E.E. 2). With his harsh satirical verse as well as his cerotic poems serve to identify humans as a social inonclast (Kennedy 1421). E.E. Cummings once said that poetry is “the only thing that matters (Authors in Depth 182). Cummings gave people life at a time when they needed it (Cummings, E.E. 4). Edward Estel Cummings born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. (Authors in Depth 182). Cummings is the son of Edward Cummings, a Veteran minister (Kennedy 1421). Also known as an clergy man and professor...
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...E.E. Cummings, born on October 14, 1894, was a man who loved writing prose, poetry, and plays as well as painting. He spent his life, which encompassed two world wars, learning from other poets and applying his writing skills to make texts interesting for society. Cummings was part of the Modernist movement, and he believed he could write poetry that had its own unique shape, structure, and form. He wanted to write poetry that expressed many different ideas about love; even though his use of point of view, theme, and archetype may seem bizarre, it expresses the time period in which he lived. E.E. Cummings was influenced by WWI and WWII, the Modernist literary movement, and his friends and professors who also believed in Modernism. One important...
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...“And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again” (E.E. Cummings). E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1892 and began writing poetry at the age of six. Cummings has a very recognizable style of writing He graduated from Harvard, and went to Paris to join an ambulance during World War I. How does E.E. Cummings display vision and sound to visualize meaning? E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. To begin with, Cummings uses visual techniques to create meaning by, putting the words in unique places to go with the poem. In document A,“ r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”, Cummings makes the words in the poem look like they are forming the path the grasshopper was or...
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...Writings of E.E Cummings Emily Zambrano English IV Period 3 Thornton Township High School Author Note Emily Zambrano, Department of English, Thornton Township High School. Correspondence concerning this paper on E.E Cummings should be addressed to Emily Zambrano, Department of English, Thornton Township High School, 15001 South Broadway Avenue, Harvey, Illinois 60426. Email: e4p3zambrano.emily@gmail.com Abstract The poem by E.E Cummings “All in Green my Love went Riding” is about the speaker falling in love then getting heartbroken. In this poem Cummings expresses how falling in love can feel like you've been hit by something moving faster than you can possibly catch. The speaker is stalking his prey like someone who’s truly in love will stalk his loved one. Cummings...
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...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”...
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...E. E. Cummings is very unique in the way that he applies syntax and diction to his poem, “In Just-.” “Mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful,” are just a few of the word choices that Cummings chooses to describe the setting of spring. These words not only roll off the tongue but also create a repeated sound and image. The repeated sounds are the -uh sounds in mud-luscious and the -d and -l sounds in puddle-wonderful. These are also known as cacophonic sounds and an alliteration which repeats certain sounds within a phrase. The recurring image within these two fun phrases is the image of rain, mud and puddles. In order to have mud and puddles, there has to be rain which is most closely related with the spring season. Not only is the diction...
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...“anyone lived in a little how town” ee cummings • non-conformity • form = function o Poe’s unity of effect o poem = unique, does not conform to any poetic standards, grammatical rules, expectations • songs: o Justice & Independence, Jack & Diane (JC Mellencamp) o The Dance, The River (Garth Brooks) E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town" tells the story of anyone. The name has a double meaning; anyone could be anyone in the dictionary definition sense, and could be seen as a singular entity, reinforcing the theme of isolation the independent individual has from the rest of society. The events all occur in a "pretty how town". "Pretty" connotes a mere façade, describing the superficiality of the town's inhabitants. "How", an adverb, is used as an adjective here. It could be describing the extent of the town's prettiness, but a better reason is that it describes the routine humdrum of the town's activities, since "how" also means "in a method or manner". The juxtapositions continue into the next line, "(with up so floating many bells down)". The rhythm of the line and the vowels emulate both the motion and the sounds of bells. This line occurs again later in the poem, and its function here is the same as it is there - to signify the passing of time. The next line is an ordered list of the seasons, also symbolizing the passing of time, describing anyone's activities as occurring continuously. The activities...
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...The song "American Woman" was written and recorded by the Canadian rock group The Guess Who, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The song was written in January, 1970, at a time when many countries, led by the United States, were fighting a war in Vietnam. The communists of North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam and neighboring countries, promoting communism. Many Americans were opposed to the war. The story behind how American Woman was written is unusual. The band was performing at a club called the Broom & Stone which was actually a curling rink. According to Burton Cummings, the lead singer and song writer, the show was stopped because Randy Bachman broke a string on his guitar. As he was retuning his instrument, he played the notes which eventually became the opening riff to the song. The other members began playing and Cummings started ad-libbing words to go with the music. He said in an interview in 2013, “I run inside and run up onto the stage and just grab a microphone and started singing whatever came into my head; it was all stream of consciousness at the moment stuff … all that stuff about war machines and ghetto scenes, colored lights can hypnotize …it was all just spur-of-the-moment.” examiner.com/article The audience went wild. Burton noticed that a member of the audience was recording the show and told the band manager to get the tape. Later, they listened to the tape and wrote down the music and lyrics, which was then recorded with only a...
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...Borderlands 2 Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 was a highly anticipated sequel that was released in fall of 2012. The first person shooter/role playing game hybrid was created with more guns and enemies than the first game, it was hard not to be excited about this game’s release. The game starts five years after the events that happened in Borderlands. The main antagonist Handsome Jack takes over one of the main companies in the Borderlands franchise: The Hyperion Corporation. He then declared himself of Pandora, which is the main planet in the game. Jack also took credit for defeating the Destroyer who is the final boss that you kill in the main campaign in the first game. Jack also has a giant H-shaped space station orbiting around Pandora to create a “Big Brother” atmosphere on the entire planet. It is up to the new generation of characters or what they are called in the game, vault hunters, to stop Handsome Jack. Jack steals the fault key that you piece together in the first game and starts to charge it with a siren and a mineral called eridium that was found in the vault from the first game. A siren is a female with a mystical background and superpowers with distinguishable tattoos all over her body. Once the key is charged then Jack will have access to open another vault unleashing a new monster named, “The Warrior.” You start the campaign on a train on its way to an unspecified location to start your search for the next vault. The train is booby-trapped by Handsome Jack as you...
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...The Perception of Ignorance When it comes to culture and identity ignorance can play an important role between success and failure. The stories below will provide examples of how our ignorance as a society can determine how we perceive others as well as how we are perceived by others. Sonny’s Blues Sonny’s Blues is a short story that illustrates the ignorance of the narrator to his Brother Sonny’s dream of becoming a jazz musician. The narrator thinks that life flows on the ability to just make a living that people do not have to find happiness in working to live. However, this way of thinking is different for Sonny, For example, the narrator says “Well, look, Sonny, I’m sorry, don’t get mad. I just don’t altogether get it, that’s all. Name somebody—you know, a jazz musician you admire.” (Baldwin, 1957, pg.575). Sonny responds with “Bird” (Baldwin, 1957, pg.575) and the narrator responds with “who?” After lighting a cigarette and taking a step back from the conversation, the narrator realizes how out of touch from society he has become. He is shocked and entertained by the fact that his body is trembling. The narrator tells Sonny that he will have to be patient with his ignorance on who Charlie Parker is (Baldwin, 1957, pg.575). This is Sonny’s world through his own eyes and this is what happiness is to him, the culture of jazz playing is his identity. As stated above, Sonny relates to jazz in ways that the narrator cannot understand. The narrator’s ignorance of...
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...about themselves. It’s about the passage of time and the normal things that happens as time goes on. E. E. Cummings portrays the people to be careless as implied in stanza 7. He contrast the people being selfish, line 2, stanza 2 “cared for anyone not at all” with the people being loving, line 2, stanza 4, “she laughed his joy she cried his grief”. There are many different ways to approach this poem. You can figure out the themes and meaning or talk about how Cummings ties nature to the main idea, like how he uses the seasons to make the point that the feelings of the people of the town never change and the passing of time. Lewis Turco found two themes of this poem. His first theme is “how can anyone live in a pretty town” where nothing much goes on, where people worry only about themselves although they are involved with everyone else. His next theme is that people do in fact live in towns like this one where as Turco says, “they are anyone and noone, of no particular significance except to one another on an individual basis; anyone does mean something to noone and mostpeople-both care and do not care; both love and do not love; are important to one another and are not important at all.” These themes contrast and may seem to cancel each other but they do not. They both are true. I tied the theme of nature to the passing of time and how the people never change. E.E. Cummings uses the seasons and the weather to emphasize how people of the “pretty town” feelings. He uses the seasons...
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..."l(a" is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his 1958 collection 95 Poems.[1] "l(a" is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. When the text is laid out horizontally, it reads as l(a leaf falls)oneliness —in other words, a leaf falls inserted within the first two letters of loneliness.[2] Robert DiYanni notes that the image of a single falling leaf is a common symbol for loneliness, and that this sense of loneliness is enhanced by the structure of the poem. He writes that the fragmentation of the words "illustrates visually the separation that is the primary cause of loneliness". The fragmentation of the word loneliness is especially significant, since it highlights the fact that that word contains the word one. In addition, the isolated letter l can initially appear to be the numeral one.[3] Robert Scott Root-Bernstein observes that the overall shape of the poem resembles a 1.[4] Further suggestions for interpretation (collected at an English language-class in Germany in the 1980ies, all underlining the “loneliness”) may be: • The “a” in the first line (as indefinite article) represents singularity. • The “le” in the second line is the French equivalent to “the” (again “singularity”). • If the first letters of line 6 to 9 are read downward, they read “soli”, which in Latin means “only”. • e.e. cummings's "L(a". • Measured by sheer boldness of experiment, no American poet compares to him, for he slipped Houdini-like...
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...Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. The son of a sociology professor at Harvard, Cummings began writing poetry as early as the age of ten. He attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School as a teenager. In 1926, his father was killed in a car accident. The death of his father had an enormous impact on Cummings works, as he started to focus more on the aspects of life within his works(New World Encyclopedia). Cummings was first married to Elaine Thayer. This relationship began as an affair with the wife of his friend. In 1919, Elaine gave birth to a daughter, Nancy. They were not married however until 1924, this marriage however was doomed to fail in a divorce in 1925(Poetry Foundation). Cummings then married Anne...
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...E.E. Cummings Author Study “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - E.E. Cummings. E.E Cummings wrote his poems his way and he didn’t let anyone tell him how to write his poems. E.E Cummings wrote many poems throughout his life and many of his poems have been recognized and praised for his different style of writing and writing about ideas that were not acceptable to write back when he was alive. E.E Cummings’ domination of different forms of writing poems, different ideas of society, freedom with rhythms, and vernacular naturalness of his rhetoric, has made him one the greatest American authors. Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts to Edward and Rebecca Cummings. E.E. Cummings father was a professor at Harvard University he was later known as the minister of Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts (World Biography, Par 1). That was one of the ways E.E. Cummings was able to attend to Harvard University because they knew his father. Another person who helped was his mother; Cummings’ mother introduced him into writing and writing poems as well (World Biography, Par1). Cummings was introduce into writing at a young age and he learned that he loved to write poems. He grew up with philosophers such as William James and Josiah Royce which they later helped him with writing his poems. (World Biography, Par 1). E.E. Cummings received many awards for his accomplishments in poetry and in the style he...
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...symbolism in the title itself, sets a theme or mood of horror or tragedy because of the camp he was imprisoned in, and addresses the issues related to war. Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died on September 3, 1962 at the age of 67. He decided early in his life that he wanted to become a poet. He later graduated from Harvard. He was drafted into. He wrote the story The Enormous Room. He/ was known for his poems and plays. He wrote over 2900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays,...
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