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    Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style. Cummings, often referred to as e.e. cummings, lived in a Unitarian family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born on October 14th, 1894 (CUMMINGS, E(dward) E(stlin) 1894-1962), Cummings grew up with his two parents and sister, Elizabeth. As a child, his stay…

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    E.E. Cummings Born in October of 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings began writing poetry as the very early age of 10. With the support of his very liberal parents, e.e. was encouraged to develop his writing and explore his creative gifts. (Nicholas Everett, Modern American Poetry, 1994) Among writing poetry, Cummings was an avid painter, studying art in Paris after the First World War. Cummings was married three times, his first marriage ended in divorce and his former wife took their young daughter…

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    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…

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    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.…

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    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…

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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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Is Yeats a good poet? - Angélique Dongo Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium. eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about…

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    Fault of an Image: Agency and Inevitability in “The Second Coming” The anxieties regarding global chaos and the possibility of individual culpability that inundated popular thought in the aftermath of World War I informs William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming.” At its core, the poem is an exploration of the equivocal boundaries between individual agency—and further, responsibility—and the inevitability of world events determined by an act of divine providence. Rather than embracing…

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