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    E.E Cummings’ distinctive style in poetry gives readers the opportunity to interpret his work in various ways. His satirical approach challenges modern society to go against the grain and construe his work how they individually view it. His fascination with nature allows him to create an unpredictable yet vivid storyline for readers. Cummings use of allegory and symbolism in his poem “[in Just-]” contributes to his intention of allowing readers to think for themselves. In the poem, the speaker begins

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    E. E Cummings Influences

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    The poetry of Edward Estlin Cummings, which was influenced by personal background and between the Realism and the Harlem Renaissance period, has contributed to the American literary heritage. E. E. cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. E.E Cummings was one of the most popular modernization poets during his time. He was raised by his parents Rebecca and Edward cummings. He was also raised along with his sister Elizabeth cummings. He was always sympathetic with writing

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    Edgar Estlin Cummings The life of Edgar Estlin Cummings starts on October 14, 1894 with his birth to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. At the age of sixteen he enters Harvard College, and begins to write poetry for Harvard Monthly. After Harvard, he joins Ambulance Corps, and sails to France to participate in World War I. Soon after his arrival he gets arrested and imprisoned for three months in a French detention camp on suspicion of disloyalty1. On New Years Day he is released

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    “You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.” Edward Estlin Cummings wrote this in the late 1900’s, and this is only a few words of his 2,900 poems. Cummings is a delight to read with poems ranging from love, to describing a beautiful fall day. His works are a range from sad, to happy, and everything in between. Cummings has truly mastered the art of poetry, his works are still being cherished decades later in a very modern world. Cummings poems call to mind very vivid images of a beautiful autumn

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    E.E. Cummings uses many different literary devices throughout Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, to explain the setting, as well as the tone of the piece. By using devices such as imagery, rhymes, and metonymy, Cummings creates the illusion of a pleasant town, that experiences many seasons together, and is eventually plagued by a death of a town member. Cummings chooses his diction carefully in order to make sure the audience is getting the right appearance of the town, he does so by choosing

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    In “[in Just-],” cummings brings the reader into a world filled with balloons, playing children, and happier times—only to then insert an allusion to Pan, a lecherous Greek god. On the surface, e.e. cummings utilizes enjambments, allusion, and repetition to urge the reader to immerse themselves within the coming of spring and their past childhood. It would appear, however, that the subtleties within the poem are what make the reader question the innocence of childhood, and cummings construction of

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    Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet – the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost – born in 1894. He was immensely popular, especially among younger readers for his work; he experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax. The majority of his poems turn to the subjects of love, war, and sex, with such simplistic language, abandoning traditional techniques to create new means of poetic expression. “Somewhere I have never travelled”, is a very

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    unknown citizen did not disturb the universe as many people strive to do in their lives. In the poem “Old Age Sticks”, we can see the deeper meaning behind it at first it may be the hardest thing in the world to read, but that is because Mr. E.E. Cummings uses words to create confusion. However, the meaning behind this is that the young continue to grow old and the old try to tell the youth what to do and what not to do which is super controversial for example, “Old age sticks up Keep off Signs

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