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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E Cummings was born in Massachusetts in 1894. Cummings was a poet and painter. How does E.E Cummings create meaning to his poems ? E.E Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual and auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E Cummings used several visual techniques. One example is when he writes his poems in a one shape for document A. Another example is in Document B he separates words and puts them in different stanzas. Document A is about loneliness so that’s probably why he shaped it as a one. Document B is about a grasshopper so that’s why when E.E Cummings uses an exclamation point out of nowhere it’s because the grasshopper is in a mid leap. Furthermore, E.E Cummings

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