'Anyone Who Lived In A Pretty How Town'

How often do you get to read and learn about someone who revolutionised poetry and english and changed it forever! For my poet I chose E.E cummings the reason why I decided to chose him was upon further research and understanding about his growing up and his life really spoke out to me. Being born into a family with liberal parents and as a young adult the influence from World War One really showed upon his writing as in most poems he somewhat talks how the world is going crazy. He actually volunteered in france to work in the maramedic area this was popular during the time especially for people who are pacifists. He chose to become a writer at a young age of child at 8 years old too 22 years old he wrote a poem everyday. By the time he reached
The reason why I chose this poem to analyze first was is writing style a revolutionary writer he starts this poem with “anyone lived in a pretty how town” as you can see he started this an uncapitalized letter he uses incorrect punctuation and often run on sentences. This poem refers to the time period when they were going threw the first World War the world was going crazy as he writes the children women and men were sobbing. The world was was in a state of frenzy. Throughout this poem he disregards the use of punctuation and word repetition and order. This is asstonishing for exactly this time period no one did this he was a lone wolf he was criticised extremely harsh during this period for
Out of all his poem this is my favorite he invents words and uses phrases that typically would not go. For instance a line that sticks out to me is “what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb” this writing is very informal he is a liberal writer and that would have to do because of his parents. This poem is a satirical poem and a pretty much broken sonnet. He talks about certain issues but at the same time remains loyal and a patriot towards his country. This poem uses metaphoric language throughout the poem for example “why talk of beauty what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead” This sort of descriptive metaphoric language really makes the poem come to