Ee Cummings Influences

E.E. Cummings was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century. He was an out-of-the box thinker who displayed uniqueness in his paintings, poetry, and playwriting. “American poet and painter who first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his eccentric punctuation and phrasing” (Britannica 1). Although he did not receive much recognition for his works, he showed boldness and transparency as he poured himself into his work. He was daring, refreshing, and deeply inspirational. His works brought something new to the world that the arts had never seen before. Cummings influenced the world through his life, originality, ad one of his most beautiful poems “I carry your heart with me.” E.E. Cummings or Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was a sociology professor at Harvard University and a minister. His mother loved him deeply and encouraged his creativity and artistic abilities. He grew up in an intelligent home where his parents supported his creativity. From an early age, he had a love for poetry and wrote a poem a day to explore different writing styles (E.E. Cummings 2). He went to Harvard in 1911. In his sophomore year of college, he published his first poems in the universities’ monthly …show more content…
He traveled back and forth between New York and Paris where he would show off his artwork and try to learn from the culture (Britannica 1). He also had an affair with his Friend’s wife, Elaine Thayer. She gave birth to Cumming’s daughter in 1919 and married Elaine in 1924. Their marriage was very unhappy and Elaine fell in love with another man, divorcing Cummings in 1925. He did not take the divorce well and reportedly took a gun and threatened to shoot the new couple and commit suicide (Doherty 2). However, after he began to recover from this tragedy, he began to write with a new and fresh