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How do you feel about E.E Cummings makes up words and getting paid for it? E.E Cummings,born in the late 1800's and early 1900. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Cummings was different from other poets because his style in writing poetry was outgoing and no other poet wrote like that.How does he use vision and sound to create meaning in his poems?Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. First, E.E Cummings used a lot of visual techniques in his poems, like in poems (A & B ).In his poem he used punctuation as a way to create a poem.In document (A) he used parentheses (a leaf falls) as a way to separate two sentences from each other. He used punctuation such as parentheses as a way to show that

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