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E. E. Cummings
This work does not fall into traditional repeated feet or meter. Instead, it both mocks and replicates the speech tones of an insincere political public rant, meant to impress the audience with a...
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E. E. Cummings
On the surface, the narrator is speaking to a little kitten who has fallen asleep with its eyes open. But the poem also speaks of spring, and in combination these images reflect Cummings’...
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E. E. Cummings
This poem, convoluted and abbreviated in typical Cummings style, is a homage to individuality, a portrait of Kitty herself, and an admonishment to her “Johns” – a description of the less...
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E. E. Cummings
First, while it is true that Cummings wrote his own name without punctuation or capitalization (e e cummings), it has become common practice for scholars to normalize the form when citing or...
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E. E. Cummings
This modified sonnet by E. E. Cummings varies from the traditional sonnet form in its rhythm, meter, punctuation, and capitalization. One of Cummings' signature techniques is erratic punctuation...
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E. E. Cummings
In his poem "next to of course god america i," e. e. cummings satirizes the blind chauvinism that politicians summon from the citizens and soldiers in order to serve their purposes in times of war....
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E. E. Cummings
This poem is an excellent example of Cummings’ irony. As the last line indicates, the “speaker” is actually a political speaker, jamming together many empty clichés (“land of the...
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E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings is well-known for his writing and Plato Told is typical of his individuality. It is a timeless poem which reminds the reader that war is an ongoing tragedy that will never change...
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E. E. Cummings
Cummings is calming a child at bedtime, whose child problems and worries have made him/her restless. At the same time, of course, Cummings is calling us all "little children" who are worrying...
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The Poetry of Cummings
This poem is at the zenith of Cummings’ experimenting with the “unsaid,” the intuitive, suggestive, elusive element of language’s unspoken connotation. Far from paraphrasing the poem’s...
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E. E. Cummings
Persons initially approaching cummings’ poetry are often blinded by his innovative typographical and line-length experiments, and miss the beautiful layering of images that reflect his unique...
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E. E. Cummings
These two poems, the first (XX, from 1x1) a three-stanza series of octavo lines, speculates on the expansion of words beyond their limitations, positing a release of vocabulary and parts of speech...
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E. E. Cummings
Cummings seems to refer to destruction by wind, snow and military might in the three stanzas of this remarkable poem. The summer wind that turns "king to beggar" seems to offer hope at the end,...
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E. E. Cummings
I dont know if the text of poem is available online in full for download, due to copyright issues and all. However you might check the sites below, or refer to a printed book/collection of...
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E. E. Cummings
Love poetry-- whether by Shakespeare, or e e cummings, or Lovelace, or Hafiz, or Waris Shah, or Lorca, or any other poet anywhere in the world, is--and shall continue to be-- popular, ever until...
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E. E. Cummings
There is an echo of cummings poem in the Yeats poem “Sailing to Byzantium,” not superficially (Byzantium was a great capitol, closer to a cathedral than a “little church") but in its placing...
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E. E. Cummings
You couldn’t have picked a more unlikely candidate to compare to this Yeats poem than e.e. cummings, for theme, and for style. Cummings did not see seasons as inevitably leading to death, but...
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E. E. Cummings
By starting with Cummings’ famous topiary poem, from Chansons Innocentes (“Songs of Innocence”), you are seeking a Yeats poem that either speaks of childhood, or experiments with poetic...
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E. E. Cummings
This love poem poetizes the dichotomy of feeling vs. thinking. The narrator is saying that the feeling, the impulse to kiss, is stronger and more valuable than the “decision” to kiss – the...
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E. E. Cummings
Foregrounding is any instance where an author or poet uses literary terms and calls attention to them through their salience. This poem uses plenty of foregrounding as the poet builds up his...
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E. E. Cummings
In a word, the poem has no rhyme scheme. That is, the end-words do not echo any other end-words. Technically, it would be called “blank verse” although that term implies some attention to...
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E. E. Cummings
These two poems by the inestimable e. e. cummings clearly offer very different views on life. "In Just-" gives us a childhood pictue of the sheer joy of living as the children in the poem rejoice...
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E. E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings, a major figure in the 1950’s and 1960’s and a strong influence on the "beatnik" poetry movement (Corso, Ginsberg, etc.), is unfortunately known mainly for his avoidance of...
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E. E. Cummings
In the poem, the speaker says kisses are better than wisdom and her eyelids’ flutter is better than the “best gesture" of his brain. Kisses and the flutter are expressions of emotion. They are...
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E. E. Cummings
The speaker states that anyone who believes in structuring emotion in logic and order will never fully experience that emotion. The emotion must be felt first. If the emotion is filtered through a...
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E. E. Cummings
It seems difficult to me to say what mood this poem conveys. cummings is restating his philosophy that feeling and emotion are primary and reason is secondary. He believes that those who live their...
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E. E. Cummings
From the bland, empty affirmation of religious belief in the first line, through the piling up of stock patriotic phrases rendered meaningless by being pulled out of context (and syntactical...
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E. E. Cummings
cummings is mocking patriotic rhetoric. cummings mashes cliches that you would typically hear from politicians in speeches or traditionally, at fourth of july celebrations. this is a satire on a...
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E. E. Cummings
The poem is a sonnet, with the form being abab, cdcd, efgfeg. The rhyming words are colloquial and also trite, in keeping with the nature of the speaker and his purpose as a July 4 type of orator....
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E. E. Cummings
This author is probably one of the more intricate and involved poets. This poem is a minor masterpiece of poetic satire, in which the main speaker reveals his stupidity as he talks. Cummings raises...
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E. E. Cummings
I have always found this poem to be one of the more difficult cummings poems to figure out. With e. e. cummings, it is really important to look at the non-traditional way he uses words because...
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E. E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings, in his poem "A Poet's Advice," maintains that writing poetry is a supremely difficult task. Cummings begins by defining the task of a poet: A poet is somebody who feels, and who...
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E. E. Cummings
The poet e. e. cummings advises students that the most important piece of advice he can give is to "learn how to feel." He says that any old person can learn to think or to know. He implies that...
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E. E. Cummings
I think what e.e. cummings is saying is not that it is difficult to be a poet. I think he is saying that it is difficult to be original - and therefore implying, that in order to be a poet, you...
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E. E. Cummings
I believe the E. E. Cummings Copyright Trust (or estate) is handled by the Liveright Publishing Corporation. You can contract Liveright Publishing at the address below. I have included other...
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E. E. Cummings
There are two aspects of the poetry of E.E. Cummings that make him significant: He was on the "cutting edge" of the Modernist, experimental movement. His poetry is new in its typography, its...
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E. E. Cummings
One of the challenges with the poetry of e. e. cummings is to achieve precisely what you have mentioned - it is difficult to break it down into logical sentence structure. Obviously you might come...
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E. E. Cummings
In "since feeling is first," a love poem, e.e. cummings uses the metaphor of punctuation to describe his feelings. At the very end of the poem, he states, "for life's not a paragraph/and death I...
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E. E. Cummings
Cummings uses language ingeniously to relate his feelings about love and other aspects of life. In "since feeling is first," a love poem, he uses the metaphor of punctuation to describe his...
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E. E. Cummings
In the poem "since feeling is first," E.E. Cummings intertwines two powerful metaphors to express his belief that emotion is a more reliable perspective from which to examine issues of life and...
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E. E. Cummings
As you say, the poet is setting up a number of things that he says are opposites. In line 9, he speaks of wisdom. In this case, the opposite of wisdom is given in the previous line, line 8. He...
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E. E. Cummings
Alliteration is used in E.E. Cummings' "next to of course god america I": "Love your land" in line 2, "glorious name by gorry" in line 7, "jingo by gee by gosh by gum" in line 8, "heroic happy,"...
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E. E. Cummings
I am really not sure how this question is any different than your question that you asked about this poem a few days ago. After all, once you know the meaning of a poem, then presumably you know...
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E. E. Cummings
In my opinion, this is a poem that is trying to oppose the idea of patriotism. Or perhaps I should say it is opposing the idea of blind patriotism. The author strings together all these patriotic...
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E. E. Cummings
I love to comment on poems and analyze them, but this one is making me blush! The poem, a fairly famous one, is a thinly veiled reference to sexual activity. If, instead of a car, you think of...
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E. E. Cummings
e.e. cummings had very interesting and unique ways of expressing himself, and "in Just-" is no exception to his typical style. He likes to break grammar rules, bending them to create the...
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E. E. Cummings
The main theme behind this poem is logic versus emotions. And, Cummings feels that emotions are much more powerful, joyous, and worth paying attention to. He addresses the poem to a woman who he...
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E. E. Cummings
The "You" represents God, to whom the poem is addressed. This poem is a prayer of thanksgiving, spoken directly to God, thanking Him for the beauty of the natural world, "for everything which is...
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E. E. Cummings
The first thing that it appears to reveal about cummings is that he believes in God. He addresses the poem to Him, as a sort of oblation, a prayer of gratitude. He even opens up in the style of a...
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E. E. Cummings
In the poem, anyone represents the individual. When anyone "sang his didn't" and "danced his did," he is celebrating life in a sense. The idea of "sang his didn't"...
