Brilliant. Innovative. And Well diversified. When a man finds inspiration throughout his lifetime only to later realize he would be a man that leaves a legacy as one of the famous American poets. I would like to introduce you to a man named Edward Estlin Cummings, one of America's innovative, and influential poets of his time. Inspiring readers to understand the concept of originality in his poetry by demonstrating how he used influences from his childhood experiences, imagism, and concrete poetry to write the poems we now admire.
Known throughout Cambridge, Massachusetts for working in the Emersonian style of romantic transcendentalism, Edward Estlin Cummings, recognized as E.E Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894. He presented romantic literature in experimental versus to create a distinct personal style. Who wrote moving poetries that were influenced by the transcendentalist movement E(dward) E(stalin) Cummings. …show more content…
This movement went towards most of Cummings poetry narrowing the topic to specifically the romantic transcendentalism. Most of Cummings poetry had topics of love and family but one would not have known unless they re-read his poems and really focused on the theme of it. From a young age of eight years old, Cummings always had an interest in poetry. His poetry was unlike others and the start of his career in poetry did not start until 1923 with his first volume of verse, Tulips and Chimneys. In his lifetime, Cummings wrote 3,000 poems, two novels and four plays and had also painted portraits having interest in art (Unravelling a Life; E.E Cummings). Not only was Cummings poetry influenced by the transcendentalist movement, he was known to be America’s great modernist writers which encourage most of his poetry to rebel against the
Known throughout Cambridge, Massachusetts for working in the Emersonian style of romantic transcendentalism, Edward Estlin Cummings, recognized as E.E Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894. He presented romantic literature in experimental versus to create a distinct personal style. Who wrote moving poetries that were influenced by the transcendentalist movement E(dward) E(stalin) Cummings. …show more content…
This movement went towards most of Cummings poetry narrowing the topic to specifically the romantic transcendentalism. Most of Cummings poetry had topics of love and family but one would not have known unless they re-read his poems and really focused on the theme of it. From a young age of eight years old, Cummings always had an interest in poetry. His poetry was unlike others and the start of his career in poetry did not start until 1923 with his first volume of verse, Tulips and Chimneys. In his lifetime, Cummings wrote 3,000 poems, two novels and four plays and had also painted portraits having interest in art (Unravelling a Life; E.E Cummings). Not only was Cummings poetry influenced by the transcendentalist movement, he was known to be America’s great modernist writers which encourage most of his poetry to rebel against the