Ee Cummings Essay

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.” This quote by William Yates, articulates, just how much time E.E. Cummings put into his poems, because they all seem effortless or like a moment’s thought. Because of fact that Cummings almost never used capital letters in his poems, people often spell his name the same way, without any capitalization. What makes Cummings so interesting is his abnormal form his works take on, from the way in which he organizes his work and the stories that consist within.

Cummings was obsessed with manipulating the spatial and visual elements in the English language in order to make his poems into a piece of visual art. By incorporating image movement in his works, Cummings controls how you read his poems. From first glance, without reading a single world, you almost have a rough idea of what his next poem will be about. By making things like typography and punctuation his own, he makes his poems a piece of art. Cummings has so many highly …show more content…
His two most famous works The Enormous Room and Tulips and Chimneys were all based on real life events, told through the eyes of Cummings. In his first book, The Enormous Room, Cummings tells his real life account of being imprisoned in France during the first world war. Although Cummings retells a very dark time in an internment camp, he shows a very unique and cheerful side of imprisonment. Later in his career, he published his first collection of poems which is entitled, Tulips and Chimneys. This collection of poems were all written by Cummings at a young age, portray many aspects of his life at that time. The poem entitled "Puella Mea" which at first was written exclusively for Elaine Thayer. In the poem, he writes about his love affair with Mrs. Thayer. Grabbing from personal event throughout his life and incorporating them into countless