Comparing In Just And In Just By E. Cummings

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All of his poems were different which made them more personal. His way of writing to me is way more effective than the traditional way of writing, with correct grammar and punctuation. He rarely uses capital letters, only for emphasis, and punctuation is only used for a shocking effect. Cummings forms his poems differently. For Example, his poem “I Will Be” is formatted in a non-standard structure as compared to his other poem “In Just”. The wording Cummings chooses is a huge part of the poems being meaningful. A lot of times he will combine or separate worlds like in his poem “In Just” when he says “ballonman”, “eddieandbill”, and “bettyandisbel”. You find more meaning in the poems with his random scatter of words and phrases. I think the

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