Anyone lived in a pretty how town

e. e. cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” share many similarities. Throughout both the poem and the play, each set their focus on time and how it passes without notice with the changing of seasons and weather until death. In an article about the poem the line “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes” (Poetry for Students) helps…

November 2016 The Great Gatsby VS Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town Love can mean many different things to many different people, love to some isn't just one feeling. It is a rollercoaster of sad and happy points. But the person who shares these feelings or for whom they have feelings for is gonna pick them up and keep them going through all of the hard times. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and e.e cummings, author of Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town convey similar themes of…

between E. E. Cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is the passage of time. An author reviewing the poem in “Poetry for Students” remarks, “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes.” Both the poem and the play use changes in the seasons and weather to express the passing of time. Each text focuses on how time passes without thought…

theme in both “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and The Great Gatsby because they both involve the carelessness of people and the effects on the main character. The fictional story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by Cummings are about carelessness and hope. It reveals that most people are careless. They only care about themselves and have no originality at all.But, there are a few people that are hopeful and the authors show how they…

Scott Fitzgerald and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E. E. Cummings reflect the message that this quote reveals. In The novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator, gives his personal account of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Jordan Baker, and Daisy and Tom Buchanan. These characters are extremely wealthy and careless inhabitants of Long Island involved in several love triangles during the 1920s. The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” depicts the lives of anyone and noone, a…

repeating anyone lived in a pretty how town, and no one cares, nobody loved. The ideas conveyed is that no one loved anyone. “Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Line 4). “They sowed their isn’t they reaped the same” (Line 2) In The Great Gatsby when Daisy and Gatsby were driving and hit Myrtle they kept going didn’t go back to check on her to see if she was ok. Both of these examples show a sign of carelessness in both the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”…

Playwright Thornton Wilder and poet e. e. cummings are portraying ordinary life in a small town in the play Our Town and in the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Both, the play and poem were written about at the same period. The towns in both the play and poem can be related to any city in the country. The poem and play take the readers through the similar themes of the passage of time, love, and death, which are an ordinary life that is monotonous and ultimately unmemorable. Both…

poem there are different ways to interpret the underlying meaning between the words. For his characters, noone and anyone, readers could take them as literally noone and anyone or as certain people going through life. If readers take it literally, then they would see life as being completely lonely and that they had noone to relate to or love. If the readers relate to the noone or anyone characters then they would have a different…

poem titled “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” by yet again E.E. Cummings, this poem is the classic love story of a man who loves a girl and ends up with her. The reader can derive three separate messages from the poems “The Unknown Citizen”, “Old Age Sticks”, and “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”. The first poem “The Unknown Citizen”…

that Cummings was aware of how much knowledge and wisdom one can gain as he or she grows old and experiences more things in life. This poem shows the discord that can grow between the young and the elderly when neither is willing to respect one another. For example, Cummings writes, “age cries no Tres)&(pas) youth laughs (sing...” to show how the youth did not listen or bother to acknowledge what those above them were trying to say. Later in the poem, it talks about how the youth go on not…