While Cummings started writing poetry at a young age, his first self published work was an autobiography. The Enormous Room was published in 1922 and contained Cummings’ experiences in jail during WWI. His next work, Tulips and Chimneys,was published in 1923 and contained numerous short poems. Cummings published more poems at around that time. (Biography.com). Cummings’ next work was the play Him, which was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1927. Then, he wrote Eimi in 1933, which was “432 pages of experimental prose” after “a 36-day visit to the Soviet Union” (Britannica). While Cummings is now considered by many to be an innovative and well-loved poet, he did not gain popularity until the 1940s and 50s. As a result, most of Cummings’
