E pluribus unum

E.E. Cummings’ extended metaphor of the human life cycle reveals that all people are ultimately on the exact same path of life, as time passes, not much changes. His ambiguous pronouns serve to allow the readers to place themselves in the character’s shoes, allowing them to picture themselves in E.E. Cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” The ambiguous pronouns allow Cummings’ reader to place themselves in the characters’ shoes, thereby allowing them to realize that they, too, are on the…

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.…

Justine Reynolds Miss Kiss English 10 Honors-2 3 May 2015 Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French…

“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…

meaning. When he makes poetry he uses visual techniques to place the words in a creative form, for example in the poem “l(a,” (Doc A), he uses the words “a leaf falls,” then he places the words like leaves are falling. In the poem “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r,” (Doc B), he…

The author E.E. Cummings was best known for his odd way of mixing up his words and spelling in his way of writing like in particular. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” what will be looked into is his form of Tones, Symbols, as well as his imagery. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” meaning that the person anyone he could live in this town because anyone including himself could live in this town Mr. Cummings sets the tone that there is nothing different or unique about the people or this…

Evans-Pritchard, and Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives, by Jon D. Holtzman, the lives of pastoralists in southern Sudan are discussed. In the selection by Evans-Pritchard, we learn about a group who’s social and economic structures rely heavily on cattle. Cattle cannot be tended by a single family alone, so several families may tend and protect their cattle together. The cattle belong to the head of the household, and even among his death, the family is reluctant to break up the herd, at least until…

As a society today, people are moving in a much faster pace than ever before. Many of the advancements over the past few years can be accredited to digital media and the internet. Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the fourteenth Dalai Lama and leader of the Central Tibetan Administration, discusses the need for a moral compass in the biotechnology industry in “Ethics and the New Genetics”. However, use of the internet and social media is also in dire need of a moral compass. The internet and social…

computer screen? Can they concentrate better using e-books or paper books? E-books came to existence before World War II with an American Engineer Vannevar Bush, who imagined the “memex” as a way for people to store and read great amounts of available information, but printed books began 560 years ago; memex is a device in which someone stores all his/her books (Manley and Holley, "History of the Ebook: The Changing Face of Books"). Nowadays, both paper and e-books are essential, but everyone…

Education has taken quite a different role in peoples’ lives in the more recent past. While it has always been available to anyone, adults seem to be more of prevalent in the education community with all of the options available. People are able to enhance their professional skills or get additional degrees from a variety of sources. What defines adult learners is a controversial discussion. The Southern Regional Education Board describes adult learners as, “A very diverse group (typically ages…