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BACKGROUND INFO
• Edward Estlin Cummings
• Born October 14, 1894
• Graduated from Harvard University
• WW1- Imprisoned for 3 months
• Poet, playwright, painter, and
author
• Died Sept. 3, 1962
COMMONALITIES
Many of his poems includes mangled structures or no structure at all.
He uses the themes of love, nature, and the seasons of rebirth.
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LITERARY DEVICES
He tends to use a great amount of alliterations to get his point across
He uses intricate rhyme schemes to further enhance the situation at hand.
maggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded starwhose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
INFLUENCE
- Father’s Death- “... a locomotive cut the car in half, killing my
father instantly.”
- my father moved through dooms of love
- Marriage -Married three times -Themes of love and romance
WHAT
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• “eccentric and self-indulgent”• “explicit treatment of sexuality”• “insufficient artistic growth”• “spontaneity and child-like
wonder”• “forcing his reader to visualize
language”
WE AGREE:
• “explicit treatment of sexuality”
-Ex: I like my body when it is with your
• “forcing his reader to visualize language”• -Ex: “a horrible thing• which raced sideways while blowing bubbles”
• “insufficient artistic growth”- Similar themes are use through out his career. He uses
related structure -ex: tulips and chimneys (1923) compared to 95 poems
(1958)
WE DISAGREE:
• “eccentric and self-indulgent”-His poems visualize language- Show a lot of emotion
• “spontaneity and child-like wonder”- Common patterns- General themes
PICTURES
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings
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