A Pretty How Town

with Peris. Peris found out about Tally’s issues with not being able to turn pretty. Everyone in New Pretty Town was waiting for Tally, but she never showed up. Peris asked her about the people who escaped with Shay, even though Tally wasn’t supposed to say anything she told Peris. After Tally told Peris everything he told her that they wanted him to tattle on her and tell Dr. Cable what he knew. Tally was really upset and reminded him that they had a promise with each other. After Peris left Tally felt really bad that she told Peris, Shay’s secrete. The next day Dr. Cable sent a car to pick up Tally again. This time Tally was going to answer all the questions Dr. Cable asked her. Tally starts to tell her about Shay wanting to run away with David to a place called the smoke.

“Champychumpchomps” and “gay-be-gay”....How did someone get paid for this? Apparently E.E. Cummings did- born in Massachusetts in 1894, he began writing poems as a child and became a well known “poet” for his unusual writing style. This brings us to the question, how did E.E. Cummings use visuals and hearing to create meaning. Not only will you have to read these poems, but also have your ears ready.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of great Gatsby and E.E Cummings, author of  “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” convey similar themes of sadness, carelessness, and love. Mostly love & sadness. Both selections reveal that not everyone is there for you as they say they are through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction.

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” E. E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1860. He had trouble publishing some of his early books so he had to pay to print them himself. He became one of America's best poets. How did E. E. Cummings visual and auditory techniques? To begin with visual means sight and auditory means sound. E.E. Cumming creates meaning in his poetry by using visual and auditory techniques.

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, and symbolism. Both selections are about love and reveal that death is real.

In one of his more popular works, “Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town”, Cummings gives his insight into a world where he believes love to be sparse. Cummings clever use of word choice and lyrical refrains in “Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town” express the theme that love is so rare in societies where people stay busy with their own lives. From the very first line of the poem, which in this case is also the title, Cummings phrases his words in ways that leave them up for multiple interpretations.

In the poem, Cummings used a simple and weird names such as “anyone”, “noone”, and “how town” maybe to represent a specific era or small town. The fifth element is personification which is “a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is made human” (p.455). In the poem stars, rain, sun and moon are used to show human’s condition. Also “bell” is used to show all humans. For example, “women and men (both dong and ding)” (line, 33).

Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly referred to as E. E. Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a source of vast knowledge and was responsible for many creative works other than his poetry, such as novels, plays, and paintings. He published his first book of poetry Tulips and Chimneys in 1923. Many of his poems are known for the visual effects they create through his unusual placement of words on the page, as well as, his lack of punctuation and capitalization. The manner in which Cummings arranges the words of his poems creates an image in the reader's mind of the topic he is discussing, such as a season or climbing stairs. His visual style also

Although I did not write an analysis on the poem "in Just" by Cummings, I found it cheerful and lively, as you mentioned in your post. The spaces between the words as "whistles/far and wee," recall a vivid picture of the "lame balloonman," who is slowly whistling while two kids are running full of life. The author purposely write "eddieandbill" without spaces between the name, as referring to childhood in general. Moreover, the repetition of the words "ballonman/whistles/far and wee" together with the unconventional typography create a sort of joyful melody that well represent the spring

The next piece of text stated in the poem is “women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 5-6).   This shows carelessness because in this town none cared for anyone at all not even the ones around them and was more about themselves than people they should care about. The last piece of text stated in the poem showing carelessness and demonstrating the tone selfish is “that noone loved him more by more” (Cummings 12). This shows carelessness because its saying that no one loves anyone in the town it likes there is no love in the air and everybody loves and cares for

Life in society becomes quite busy as individuals age. From rushing to work or school, there is rarely time for anything else. Therefore, because of the busy lives individuals have, it causes them to be incapable of focussing on the little things in life. E.E. Cummings, reveals this as the cycle of life in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. Cummings use of dictation creates an abnormal setting of life, which reflects reality. Not only, does Cummings create such a setting but also uses pronouns, as a dual meaning, to suggest people whose names were unknown. In the poem, no one is a man and anyone is a woman. These pronouns represent these two individuals because it exhibits that no one actually knows them because they are too busy with their

E. E. Cummings' poem a total stranger one black day, when taken literally, is a poem about when two strangers meet

Cummings” pg.13). Cummings continued to publish volumes of poetry at a rate of approximately one every four or five years (“E.E. Cummings pg.14). The last honor involved giving a series of public talks; published as i: six Nonlecture (1953), they provide a succinct and charming summation of his life and personal philosophy. Two years later he received a National Book Award citation for poems 1923-1954, and two years after that he won the prestigious bollingen prize in poetry from Yale University (“E.E. Cummings” pg.15). (In his poetry he often ignored the rules of capitalization and has sometimes been referred to as e.e. Cummings) expanded the boundaries of poetry through typographic and linguistic experimentation (Frazee, “E.E. Cummings). An avoidance of capital letters and creative placement of punctuation soon became his trademarks. His experimental poetry took many forms, some amusing, some satirical, some beautiful, some profound, and some which did not make much sense (Frazee “E.E. Cummings”). Typical stylistic devices in his work include: running words together; scattering punctuation symbols cross the page; subverting the conventions of the English sentence; intentional misspellings and phonetic spellings and the invention of compound words such as “puddle-wonderful” (“E.E. Cummings”). However, this obvious experimentation is often combined with strict formal structures and traditional

Cummings’ impressive education consists of a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Harvard, in which he graduated near the top of his class. He submitted many of his poems to the newspaper at Harvard, which sparked his interest towards a career as a poet. When his first poem was published, the publisher left all the letters of E.E. Cummings’ name lowercase. Cummings soon adopted this as his own personal trademark. The style of Cummings’ writing was what made his poems so distinctive. No matter what the topic, he always incorporated a lyrical flow to the poem. Cummings “experimented with typography, slang, dialect, jazz rhymes, and jagged lines” (Anderson et al). By exploring the possibilities of poetry, Cummings was able to create poems that have a beat that corresponds with the tone, mood, and theme of the poem.

In his poem “Acquainted with the Night,” Robert Frost describes a character who spends his nights wandering the city streets. The reader can infer from both Frost’s tone, and the time of day in which the speaker chooses to walk, that the character is in a world of isolation. This is especially evident in the lines, “When far away an interrupted cry/ Came over houses from another street,/ But not to call me back or say good-by” (Frost 898). From this line, the reader understands that the poem’s speaker feels as if he is completely isolated in the world. In a similar way, E. E. Cummings poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” expresses the loneliness felt by people of this era. Cummings creative use of pronouns gives the poem a double entendre. The characters, anyone and noone, can represent their literal meanings, or a single man and woman. Therefore, when Cummings writes that “noone loves him more by more,” he could mean that anyone is being loved greatly, or not at all. This loneliness is expressed yet again when Cummings informs the reader, “Women and men (both little and small)/ cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 922). The works of both Frost and Cummings both portray the hardship that accompanied the feeling of loneliness during the modern