Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town Essay

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The author E.E. Cummings was best known for his odd way of mixing up his words and spelling in his way of writing like in particular. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” what will be looked into is his form of Tones, Symbols, as well as his imagery. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” meaning that the person anyone he could live in this town because anyone including himself could live in this town Mr. Cummings sets the tone that there is nothing different or unique about the people or this pretty town. Looking into finding some of the tone details that Mr. Cummings was symbols as well as imagery will be debated on “anyone one lived in a pretty how town” is the first line as stated earlier it's one own idea to interpret what kind of town it is in paragraph (1-line4) sentence he says “he sang his didn’t he danced his did” meaning he didn’t sing maybe he was sad he danced his did meaning that he was happy again soon he danced out of joy. More details are in paragraph (3-line 12) that noone his wife “loves him more and more.” Know into details of the person in the story by the name of noone is the wife and the husband goes by the …show more content…
As people can see Mr. Cummings has a nontraditional way of writing It was a great love story to read about life itself by images symbols and tones like bells seasons changing sun moon stars and rain. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” basically explains that being anyone means that the person is just the same as everyone else not unique at all. Mr. Cummings explains that people are the same in many ways they all have lived loved had hopes and dreams and in the end, everyone has the same

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