E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) is considered to be one of the most innovative of the twentieth-century poets. He was pretty successful writing poetry, mainly because his poetry was more accessible than others. Extremely intelligent and talented, his adventurous personality brought him to serve as an ambulance driver in WWI, as well as his friend John Dos Passos, and even as Ernest Hemingway did. Thus, it was during one of his turns of duty when he got arrested by the French military, apparently for writing some letters, which included anti-war views. Then, he was …show more content…
They have an affair until the outbreak of the war, and, for that reason, he is forced to leave home. During the years he spends away from home, Gatsby's memory of Daisy's love reaches obsessive proportions. However, Daisy continues with her life and gets married with Tom Buchanan. Gatsby's future is planned on Daisy's choice of leaving her husband and returning with him. Unfortunately, and as Nick Carraway tells us in the novel, Daisy has been corrupted by the society she is living in, and will not change her way of life for any