“anyone lived in a pretty how town” Opening Statement In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings‚ the author creates a strong depiction of a pretty town in which two people fall in love. The lilting sound of this poem and the positive word choice help convey the heartwarming happenings of the town‚ and overshadow the darker occurrences and grief. The poem follows the life of "anyone" a single person in the town who meets "noone" and falls in love. As the poem goes on‚ the two characters
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Edward Estlin Cummings‚ also known as E.E. Cummings was a very avant-garde poet that defies the rule of the english language. During the first World War‚ Cummings was arrested for three months under false grounds. His experience in jail inspired the thought of authoritarianism and modernism. Cummings’ was also influenced by Gertrude Stein’s syncytial and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiment‚ inspired his work of using incorrect grammar‚ spelling‚ and poetry structure. Humans tend to cynical about facing
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To begin with‚ e.e cummings always wanted to be a poet. As a child his mother would read and write with him. E.E Cummings was a very creative child and had a lot of potential. Eventually‚ E.e Cummings grew up and started writing poems. Some of his poems ended up in an anthology named “eight Harvard poets”. Also‚ some other poems ended up getting published in “the dial”. An interesting quote that he wrote said “so far as I am concerned‚ poetry and every other art was‚ is‚ and forever will be strictly
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A mid-20th century poet famed for his avant-garde style of free verse poetry was a poet by the name of E.E. Cummings (commonly stylized as e.e. cummings). He was known for his disregard of grammatical norms; for example‚ proper capitalization and punctuation usage‚ and he would oftentimes combine multiple words into one‚ which gave his poetry its distinctive style. He also had an unusual way of formatting his poems‚ using line spacing atypical of what was commonly employed by other free verse poets
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In 1920‚ E.E. Cummings published the poem “Buffalo Bill’s”. This was only 3 years after William Cody (better known as Buffalo Bill) had died‚ making this poem like a tribute to Cody. The poem did praise Cody in multiple ways but Cummings also questioned if he really did anything heroic. Cummings was not known to have any sort of hatred towards Buffalo Bill‚ but he obviously did not respect him as much as any other person of his time would have. E.E. Cummings was born on October 14‚ 1894 in Cambridge
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Poets have the gift of taking fewer words than novelists and still instilling grand emotions within their readers. In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e.e. cummings‚ Cummings uses language in various ways to portray setting‚ mood‚ and meaning. It isn’t just the words he chooses‚ but the order by which he layers them. The setting isn’t described through adjectives‚ but through imagery and nouns. “a pretty how town” creates the setting of a happening town that is active throughout “spring summer
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Jefferey Kluger makes a good point in his article “How America’s Children Packed on the Pounds”. He clearly puts it “It wasn’t easy to produce a generation of overfed kids- but it might well have been inevitable”. Americans love their food. The settlers came to a new place that was abundant with it. No shortage of game‚ and fields that produced plentiful yields. Americans love with food started early‚ the first national holiday established was Thanksgiving. Americans have always been in an
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THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILLION POUND NOTE Huang PAGE 4 Running Head: THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILLION POUND NOTE The Rhetorical Analysis of The Million Pound Note Xiao Huang Shenzhen Middle School Background The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain‚ and it was published late in the end of nineteenth century. It is notable to mention Mark Twain that he was highly praised by his friend‚ William Dean Howell‚ that ?Emerson
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Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago‚ Illinois 1932 and died May 10‚ 1999 from a heart attack. Shel Silverstein was a well know and well liked author/poet. Silverstein noticed his talents when he was twelve years old. When most boys are playing sports and chasing girls‚ Shel was at home writing and drawing original pieces. His talents were well developed by the time he served in the US Armed Forces during the 1950’s. While in the military he was a cartoonist for the Pacific Edition of the military
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