E. E. Cummings
"I am someone, who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries...that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is...a naturally and miraculously whole human being...whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow." This is a quote by a true transcendentalist, Edward Estlin Cummings, who "views nature as a state of becoming rather than as a stasis and who believes that the imaginative faculty in man can perceive the natural world directly" (Triem 5). In order to better comprehend and understand the poetry of E. E. Cummings, one must first examine his poems which had a great impact on American literature and influenced society, his original style of writing with his own techniques and use of imagery, and his unique forms of punctuation and capitalization unlike any other author of his time.E. E. Cummings was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts to parents who encouraged him early on to develop and expand his creative gifts. He attended Harvard University, and helped found the Harvard Poetry Society. While at Harvard, Cummings became intensely interested in the new movements in the visual arts: futurism, impressionism, post-impressionism, and cubism, and he began p
" As a result, he and a friend were imprisoned in a French detention camp because Cummings was ordered to say he hated the Germans and he responded with "I like the French. He won the Dial award for "distinguished service to American Letters. Afterwards, Cummings made the decision to volunteer for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Cummings used capital letters in the middle of words to suggest other meanings, and to emphasize and focus attention on the letters or the words. Upon his release, he returned to the United States where he stayed until the war ended. " Influenced by his encounters and experiences, he achieved an astonishing, original writing style that is seen in many of his poems and writings still read today. Cummings and his friends created The Eight Harvard Poets in 1917. He used spaces in single words to force the reader to weigh the syllables and to indicate a tempo of reading. He used parenthesis in words to place descriptions and mental images in the reader's mind as they read it.
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