Clifford 1 Ms. MacArthur English 2 3 March 2013 E.E Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings‚ more commonly known as E.E Cummings‚ was born on October 14‚ 1894. He was well known for his poetry. “Little Tree”‚ “Selected Poems”‚ and “Eimi“ are just some of his books of poetry‚ but does this make him securely canonized as major or minor? Richard S. Kennedy explains his point of view. He says Cummings would be a major minor poet. Someone who is considered minor‚ but thought of as
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Spoils of War In the poem “Next to you god of course america” by e.e. cummings figurative devices and sarcasm are used to reveal the hate some people have towards World War I The poem starts with a man speaking of how honorable and fascinating America in the war is. He sings parts of songs and questions anyone who thinks war is distasteful. This‚ at first glance‚ may be seen as love toward the great country but with the use of diction‚ similes‚ and line spacing the truth is revealed. The speaker
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E-Gov and Public Sector Reform: What roles for Government in e-Government? Matthias Finger Technology Policy Institute College of Management Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne BAC 103‚ Station 5 CH-1015 Lausanne +41 21 693 00 01 matthias.finger@epfl.ch questions about privatization‚ de- and re-regulation‚ entrepreneurship and management in government‚ and others more. These questions are of course still relevant‚ even though less debated these days. The question in this paper therefore
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The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” was written by E.E Cummings‚ one of the most popular poets who was known for his innovative style and structure in writing. People are very fond of Cummings poem because unlike traditional poets‚ Cummings is rebellious‚ has his unique choice of words and refuses to follow proper syntax. The theme of this poem is centered around the awareness of time and death that takes place in an average town. The poem consists of an unusual form due to the author’s
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of Love in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” Love‚ according to E.E. Cummings‚ is both a natural and consuming‚ yet ultimately ephemeral sensation. Cummings uses a cyclical structure of the seasons‚ as well as weather and astronomical patterns symbolic to each season‚ to demonstrate the natural quality of love‚ separating its phases into the distinct phases of each year. To depict the consuming nature of love‚ Cummings uses a variety of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure throughout the poem to provide
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e.e. cummings is an abnormal author. He doesn’t follow the rules. He’s what you’d call a rebel. His grammar is catastrophic on all levels. There is meaning behind each and every word he produces on paper. These two factors led to e.e. cummings legacy of twisted and complex works of writing. One of e.e. cummings poems is called “next to of course god america i”. From the title alone‚ you can tell there are many disparate elements that e.e. cummings is going to weave together. You will absolutely
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point towards the absolute meaning of the comparison the poet or author was trying to convey (in other words‚ a parallel). I have chosen the E.E. Cummings poem "l(a" because it not only encompasses the idea of symbolism through its need for interpretation‚ but also due to its simple beauty‚ creating a visual image of a leaf falling. Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14‚ 1894 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ in his family ’s home‚ within an extremely short distance of Harvard (Dreams 9). His
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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across our fears of what has never been before.”(Lorde) During the 20th century many authors used a new modernistic style of writing. E.E. Cummings‚ a modernist writer‚ saw poetry in this way; his poem “anyone lives in a pretty how town” shows how he believes poetry is the skeleton of our lives and that it brings about new perspective into people’s lives. Cummings was born in 1894 and died in 1962‚ and throughout his writing career he created more than 2‚900 poems. In the poem “anyone lived in a pretty
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Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings Poetry is considered to be a representational text in which one explores ideas by using symbols. Poetry can be interpreted many different ways and is even harder to interpret when the original author has come and gone. Poetry is an incredible form of literature because the way it has the ability to use the reader as part of its own power. In other words‚ poetry uses the feelings and past experiences of the reader to interpret things differently from one to another
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