Cummings is probably best known for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation and syntax. There is extensive use of lower case; word gaps, line breaks and gaps appear in unexpected places; punctuation marks are omitted or misplaced, interrupting sentences and even individual words; grammar and word order are sometimes strange. Many of his poems are best understood when read on the page.
Despite Cummings' affinity for avant garde styles and for unusual typography, much of his work is traditional. Many of his poems are sonnets, and he occasionally made use of the blues form and acrostics as well. Cummings' poetry often deals with themes of love and nature, as well as satire and the relationship of the individual to the masses and to the world. But, while his poetic forms and even themes show a close continuity with the romantic tradition, his work universally shows a particular idiosyncrasy of syntax or way of arranging individual words into larger phrases and sentences. Many of his most striking poems do not involve any typographical or punctuational innovations at all, but purely syntactic ones.
During his lifetime, he published more than 900 poems, along with two novels, several plays and essays, as well as numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings. He is remembered as one of the preeminent voices of 20th century poetry.
2006-07-04 08:00:52
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answered by Ipshwitz 5
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Support you? I don't understand...?
Anyhow, e. e. Cummings was a brilliant American poet who changed the form poems where "supposed" to take. He played with form and punctuation. Some bio info:
American poet and painter who first attracted attention for his eccentric punctuation, but the commonly held belief that Cummings had his name legally changed to lowercase letters is erroneous. Despite typographical eccentricity and devotion to the avant-garde, Cummings's themes are in many respect quite traditional. He often dealt with the antagonism between an individual and masses, but his style brought into his poems lightness and satirical tones. As an artist Cummings painted still-life pictures and landscapes to a professional level.
Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink.
(from 'Humanity i love you', 1925)
My personal favorite:
i will cultivate within
me scrupulously the Inimitable which
is loneliness, these unique dreams
never shall soil their raiment
with phenomena:such
being a conduct worthy of
more ponderous
wishes or
hopes less
tall than mine" (opening the windows)
"and there is a philosophy" strictly at
which instant(leaped
into the
street)this deep immediate mask and
expressing "as for myself,because i
am slender and fragile
i borrow contact from that you and from
this you sensations, imitating a few fatally
exquisite"(pulling Its shawl carefully around
it) "things i mean the
Rain is no respecter of persons
the snow doesn't give a soft white
damn Whom it touches
2006-07-04 08:14:18
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answered by slipstreamer 7
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He was a poet born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. The Enormous Room , which had to do with his time spent in a French prison camp during WW1, was one of his works....
2006-07-09 14:34:02
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answered by Anonymous
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answered by Anonymous
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a poet who wrote the majority of his verse without any punctuation something like this
2006-07-04 06:59:27
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answered by Cookie777 6
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a great American poet in the 20th century...
he had a uniques style that used all small letters and no punctuation...
2006-07-04 07:03:24
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answered by Klaatu Barada Nikto 3
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I thought he was a writer sounds like a senate or something
2006-07-04 06:58:49
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answered by karo_80 4
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E.E> Cummings was American poet.
2006-07-05 00:41:13
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answered by todd2964 1
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e. e. cummings was an American poet
2006-07-04 07:01:01
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answered by Fully armed in the battle of wits 7
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He did black and white photography
2006-07-04 07:00:22
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answered by STARLITE 4
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