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This paper analyzes the literary style of poet e.e. cummings. The paper first explains that, although Edward Estlin Cummings, e.e. cummings, had a classical Harvard education, he was part of the avant garde society of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Picasso. The paper then discusses Cummings writing style, noting that he developed an unusual style of grammar using lower case letters, creating new linguistic patterns and making up his own words often with verbs as nouns. The paper analyzes Cummings' poem "l(a", published in 1958.

From the Paper
"The fact that Cummings was an artist is important for he obviously considered his poems an audio painting. He paid special attention to his punctuation. It is often an integral part of the work. His poems need to be read for the visual of the work is an important aspect of it. Among his many styles he sometimes used what is known as enjambment. The punctuation used is a way of directing the reader and steering him to the place he wants the reader to be. He is showing the reader how it is supposed to be read and enjoyed."

Tags:pacifist, post-modernity, grammar, syntax, enjamb

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This paper discusses how E. E. Cummings, in his essay "A Poet's Advice to Students", advises that the best way to write poetry is to be a poet, and how his most persuasive explanation of what it is to be a poet is his explanation itself. The paper looks at how the perpetual enactment of Cummings' own demonstration of 'pistis' utilizes complex rhetorical strategies, which are artfully veiled by simple words and appealing rhythm to make his 'feeling' accessible to the reader. The paper asserts that, while Cummings' words are characteristically his own, their seeming simplicity echoes Aristotle's observation that the most persuasive art is the appearance of artlessness.

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"The title functions to both introduce the ethos, or character, of the speaker and establish the kairos, or occasion, of the text's reception. Ethos refers specifically to the character of the speaker as presented in the text, intended to establish the trustworthiness of the argument's presenter. Here, the title positions the speaker as a 'poet', who is therefore qualified to offer the instruction to follow. By prefacing the text as the 'advice' of an established poet to 'students', the title also serves to construct its own kairos by positioning the reader as one who may be educated by that which is explained. Thus, the title itself performs the rhetorical function of establishing the speaker's trustworthiness while simultaneously engendering receptiveness in the reader. "

Tags:rhetorical, language

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Poet E.E. Cummings considered any force that threatened what is natural and instinctive to be an antagonist of life, an adversary that men must confront before they completely lost their ability to feel and respond as individuals. The paper shows that Cummings thought mankind obsessed with technological advances and flashy advertisements promising the American ideal that he renounced the natural condition by developing needs for unnecessary things. The paper examines Cummings' contempt for man's alienation from his true self in the poems "pity this busy monster, manunkind," and "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," which scorn what organized society has proudly developed.

From the Paper
"Cummings further expressed his fear of the degradation of man's natural state three years later when he wrote "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," an Elizabethan sonnet that satirizes society's blind adherence to decorum and regulation. Here, Cummings demotes man from being a monster, a word that at least implies animalistic qualities, to being an unnatural unanimal. When such legalese as bargaining, striking, and signing on the dotted line is applied to creatures and events of nature, the effects are preposterous, and yet society accepts such irreverent behavior in man, once a natural creature. Despite the child-like language and nonsense comparisons in the poem that add a touch of innocence to the poem, Cummings' message is clear: nature is being "separated from its most essential qualities", left to exist "simultaneously with his horror of a society seriously awry" (Marks 60)."

Tags:individuality, Eimi

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This paper discusses the life and works of E.E. Cummings, born Edward Estlin Cummings. The paper specifically discusses the history of his writing career. It looks at the content of some of his poetry and how this changed with his different life experiences. The paper discusses Cumming's writing style and language and provides examples of some of the misspellings, phonetic words and phrases he used to represent a particular dialect.

From the Paper
"Many of his poems are in the form of sonnets, and he has made reference of the blues form and acrostics. The themes his poems tend to follow were that of love, nature, and the world. His poems are also often full of sarcasm and ridicule. While his poetic forms resemble romantic traditions, his work collectively shows a particular characteristic of language and logic. He had a way of single words into larger phrases and sentences. Some of his most popular and striking poems were purely syntactic. (Kennedy 1984)"
"Among his poems, he had a tendency to use free verse with no concern for rhyme or meter as well as identifiable sonnet structure with an elaborate rhyme format. Several of his poems made no sense unless read out loud due to the animated style of words, letters, and punctuation scattered across the pages. But once read out loud, the message comes clear and solid to the reader. He used writing to literally paint a picture for its readers in a lot of his poetry. (Kennedy 1984)"

Tags:misspelling, dialect, sonnet, theme

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This paper compares e. e. cummings' poem "somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond" and Robert Creeley's poem "I Keep to Myself such Measures." The paper examines how, through the use of a similar technique that uses physical terms and the use of words that suggest a physical state, these poets are able to encapsulate very powerful meaning and emotion.

From the Paper
"It is clear that the images evoked by e. e. cumming's "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" and by Robert Creeley's "I keep to myself such measures" suggest a landscape. Each poet uses different styles of language, e. e. cummings being very descriptive and varying, and Robert Creeley being very minimalistic and unchanging. It is apparent that the suggested landscapes do not actually exist in reality, but instead are meant to evoke an emotional state, through the use of physical terms. The poets are similar in their ability to conjure various emotions through the use of physical language, but each poet has created very dissimilar landscapes and thus, dissimilar correlating emotions."

Tags:landscape, description, emotion, image

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This paper looks at the form and function of E. E. Cummings's work in relation to his symbolic message, unique visual writing style, and suggestions on interpretations.

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This paper discusses the life and work of E.E. Cummings. The major theme in his poetry is romantic love, he was not a rebel of modern poetry; he was a conformist.

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The paper shows the poem "People" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko as an insightful and thought-provoking discussion about mankind in general as well as the individual man. The paper argues that because the poem glorifies people and reminds us to look for good in others, we could learn a great deal about being more considerate of people's thoughts and feelings by incorporating the poem into our lives. The paper compares "People" to poems by John Donne ("Meditation XVII") and E.E. Cummings ("anyone lied in a pretty how town"), comparisons which intensify the poem's theme of brotherhood.

From the Paper
"The theme of brotherhood is strong in Yevtushenko's "People," appealing to our more philanthropical emotions. In a sense, the poem echoes John Donne's "Meditation XVII" from which the following well-known quotations come: "No man is an island" (827) and ". . .never send to know for whom the bell tolls' it tolls for thee" (828). Both Donne's "Meditation" and Yevtushenko's poem express the idea that the loss of any individual in society is a loss of part of ourselves because we all share a bond with mankind, whether it be a bond of general humanitarianism or a more direct connection of knowing "brother of a brother" or "friend of friends" (328). When someone dies, he takes with him his private world of memories, "his first snow and kiss and fight" (328), which are a part of the person with whom he experienced these events as well. Therefore, a piece of the secret world of the living joins that of the dead, never to be rekindled in conversation, only in one-sided reminiscing."

Tags:No, man, is, an, island

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This paper is a biography of the life and career of Edward Estlin Cummings, the twentieth century poet, playwright, novelist and artist. It describes his life from his birth in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 through his childhood, education at Harvard and his experiences during World War I. It discusses how Cummings was a man of many talents-- a poet, a novelist and an artist and how he was also a voice, as all writers eventually become. It looks at how he stood for the freedom of the individual and how he expressed this through all of his works. It shows how in his poems he basically broke every law of grammatical structure known to language in and twisted the lyrical phrases around for the effect of both creativity and statement and in his art he did it by just the freedom and abstract design of his ingenuity transformed into what he painted.

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"Some of the rather influential voices that played a role in both Estlin's writing and art forms included many modern, known people. Early in his career, Estlin looked to William Shakespeare to enlighten him on the art of developing sonnets. He admired Shakespeare's "intensity" to make art what it is. He took this intensity and incorporated it into and molded his sonnets after Shakespearian ideas, so to speak. These turned out to be some of the finest sonnets of our century. Estlin wrote them in a way as to "celebrate love, savagely ridiculing human stupidity, and recording his pilgrimage to the transcendental" (Unger 433)."

Tags:abstract, reform, transcendentalist, poet, artist

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This paper takes a look at how E.E. Cummings defied linguistic convention in his poetry, and how he imparted meaning to his poems that way. Includes an analysis of criticism of his work.

From the Paper
"Renowned author and poet, E. E. Cummings, sought to take the use of language to a different extreme. By rearranging the traditional sentence structure and using nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives interchangeably, he was able to stir up the minds of the poetic society. His unique style of self-expression delighted the world by puzzling their minds and requiring readers to think "outside the box." "

Tags:anyone, cummings, how, in, lived, pretty, town