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E.E. Cummings Have you ever read a poem by E.E. Cumming? He was born in Cambridge,Massachusetts, he began to write poems as a child eventually E.E cumming became one of America’s most popular poets. E.E. cumming created meaning by using Visual techniques and Auditory techniques in some of his poems to make people understand. First of all, Cummings uses visual techniques he uses punctuation and shape. In document A he use parentheses to separate some parts into three words for example “ A leaf falls” and the letter before the parentheses begin and combine like “loneliness”. In document B in terms of punctuation exclamation point is used to emphasize the leap create the visual effects of a leaping grasshopper. E.E Cumming also used auditory

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