E. E. Cummings: Modernist Painter and Poet Author(s): Milton A. Cohen Source: Smithsonian Studies in American Art‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 2 (Spring‚ 1990)‚ pp. 54-74 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108985 . Accessed: 05/04/2011 17:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s
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E. E. Cummings was an American poet and painter. He wrote over 2‚000 poems in his lifetime. Some of these poems include “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town‚” “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May‚” and “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled‚ Gladly Beyond.” Through reviewing biographical information‚ his works‚ and critical reviews‚ most critics agree that E. E. Cummings changed the course of American poetry. Cummings went through many hardships in his life that inspired him to write more poetry. He challenged
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The use of symbol in poetry and in literature as a whole is commonplace because it is an outlet for the author ’s creative psyche. A symbol is a creative use of metaphor‚ using a comparison but not just a direct comparison. The author attempts to achieve the effect that there is much more than just the reader ’s initial reaction creating a want to delve deeper into the true meaning‚ leaving a vast space of interpretation. Allegory on the other hand is a specific comparison‚ a symbol that is set
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In Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s words “Literature does not grow or develop in a vacuum; it is given impetus‚ shape‚ direction or even area of concern by social‚ political and economic forces in a particular society” (Homecoming‚ 1972). This statement shows how the Kenyan writer associates literature with a typical process of development and evolution. As such‚ literature cannot avoid‚ while gradually gaining ground‚ undergoing or facing some important changes. This notion applies to all literary genres
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Edward Estlin Cummings‚ also known as E.E. Cummings was a avant-garde poet that defied the rule of the English language. During the first World War‚ Cummings was under arrest for three months under false grounds. His experience in jail inspired the thought about authoritarianism and modernism. Gertrude Stein’s syntactical and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiment inspired Cummings’ work by using incorrect grammar‚ spelling‚ and poetry structure. Humans tend to be cynical about facing problems in life
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The Poetic Style of e.e. Cummings “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are‚” no one could say it better than Edward Estin Cummings‚ aka e.e. Cummings. Poet William Carlos Williams said that “Cumming’s means my language‚” meaning that Williams enjoyed the way Cumming’s wrote poetry (Citation). It didn’t take long for Cumming’s to become “who he really was”. Cumming’s began writing poems at a very early age; this allowed him to develop a very unique style of writing poetry.
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Education of ee cummings Outline I.Introduction A.Cummings ’ life B.Introduction to Cummings ’ ideogram form C.5 Poems being analyzed D.Thesis Statement: Cummings utilizes unique syntax in these poems in order to convey messages visually as well as verbally. II.Poem analyses A.l(a 1.Theme - not sadness or loneliness‚ but oneness 2.Syntax a.instances of 1 ’ in the poem b.shape
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.E Cummings My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give‚ singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height this motionless forgetful where turned at his glance to shining here; that if(so timid air is firm) under his eyes would stir and squirm newly as from unburied which floats the first who‚ his april touch drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates woke dreamers to
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20 October 2013 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: Allow Me to Pour Out My Heart to You Everyone fall in love sometime‚ it’s not a crime; falling head over heels for a guy or a girl‚ it happens- love happens and many times people feel the need to “shove it down the person of interest throat”. That would be the case with the speaker in the poem Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by well-known poet Edward Estlin Cummings‚ short for E.E. Cummings. As if the speaker and his
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“9” by E.E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings was a unique poet with an equally unique writing style. E.E. Cummings was born on October 14th‚ 1894 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. In 1916‚ Cummings graduated with a master’s degree from Harvard University. During his studies‚ he was subject to many great writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. After working for five months as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I‚ he was captured by French authorities. He was accused on accounts of espionage
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