The World Is Mud-Luscious And Puddle-Wonderful By E. Cummings

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“The world is mud- luscious and puddle - wonderful” (E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He was a painter and a poet and he studied in the University of Harvard, where he was fascinated by two schools of art Impression and Cubism. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and auditory to create meaning?. E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques. In E.E. Cummings poetry, some of his poems, for example on documents a and b the poems are written in different shapes and forms by using parentheses in his poem. In the poem the parentheses are used to separate the words

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