“The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter”(E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a painter and a poet, he was fascinated with Pablo Picasso’s art. As you can see E.E. Cummings relies on sight and sound to create meaning in his poetry. It is important to know that Cummings uses language to its fullest. In document A his other poem “l(a” the spacing of the poem looks like loneliness, he also uses parentheses for punctuation, By dividing them into "l(a // le / af / fa // ll / s) / one / l // iness," Cummings' poem emphasizes the separateness that a person feels when alone. He creates a word that doesn’t make sense, “oneliness” it sounds as if it’s just one person
