E. E. Cummings Questions and Answers
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Can you explan the poem "Nobody loses all the time" by e. e. cummings?
"Nobody Loses All the Time," by e.e. cummings, is--on a superficial level--the tale of the author's Uncle Sol. Sol is a perennial loser. He starts off as a vegetable farmer, but his chickens ate...
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What are the three kinds of mass destruction that E. E. Cummings refers to in the first six lines of each stanza of...
Three kinds of massive, destructive forces mentioned in e.e. cummings's poem are a tornado, a blizzard, and a manmade apocalypse. After the unheralded destruction of World War I, poets such as...
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What does the poem "i thank you God for this most amazing" reveal about e. e. cummings?
The poem reveals that cummings not only believes in God, but finds faith in the deity through the beauty of the incarnate world, which cummings joyously celebrates in these verses. In other words,...
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Where can I find parallelism and external/internal deviation in the poem of "plato told" by E.E. Cummings? How does...
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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What are the major characteristics of E. E. Cummings's poems?
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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What is the meaning of the poem "Little Man in a Hurry" by 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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In E. E. Cumming's poem "A Poet's Advice to Students", discuss Cumming's advice to all young poets using examples...
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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What does the poem "she being Brand / -new" by E. E. Cummings mean?
This poem is an interesting—if occasionally difficult—read, considering its seemingly erratic use of spacing, punctuation, and capitalization. A little research into the style of E. E. Cummings's...
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What does the "You" represent in the poem "I thank You God for most this amazing", written by 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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What is E.E. Cummings' poem "kitty sixteen 5'11 white prostitute" about?
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 obvious...
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In the poem, "There is a here and...," is the essential meaning roughly parallel to the idea that the meek shall...
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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Who is the speaker of the poem "who are you, little i?" by e. e. cummings? What can be the relationship between the...
On the first reading of the beautiful poem "who are you, little i" by e. e. cummings, the poem appears to be about a parent watching a child who is looking out a window at the sunrise. However, the...
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What is the mood of "what if a much of a which of a wind"?
This poem is a good example of a Modernist poem. Modernist writers, like e. e. cummings, often drew upon the horrors of World Wars I and II in their writing, while at the same time emphasizing and...
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Next To Of Course God America I Summary
There is a belief that suggests that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. This could serve as an excellent starting point for the discussion in Cummings' work. The premise of the poem is...
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What is the meter of E.E. Cummings' "Next to of course god America"?
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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What does the poet mean when he describes the earth as "happening illimitably" in "i thank you God"?
To properly answer this question, it is important to grasp the poet's intention in "i thank you God" by e e cummings. This is a poem written in praise of the beauties and wonders of God. Cummings...
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Could someone help me with foregrounding in ""kitty". sixteen, 5' 1", white, prostitute"?
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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Please discuss e. e.cummings's poem, "A Poet's Advice to Students."
In his "Advice to All Young People," E.E. Cummings underscores a reflection of the English author, Oscar Wilde, who said, "most people's thoughts are those of others; their words a quotation." For...
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How do E. E. Cummings's poem "[O sweet spontaneous]" and Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" reflect modernism?
Both E. E. Cummings's poem "[O sweet spontaneous]" and Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" exhibit characteristics of modernism. Let's look at how each poem does this. First, it is important to...
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In e.e cummings poem a poets advice to students what does he mean by this quote? " and so my advice to all young...
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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How does the structure of the poem "next to of course god america i" differ from the traditional fourteen-line sonnet?
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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The poem "what if a much of a which of a wind" and "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" are clearly the...
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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What is an analysis of "Why Did You Go" by 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’ interest...
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What are two conventions of language that E. E. Cummings disregards in his poetry?
E.E. Cummings was a poet who loved to experiment with language and to break the rules. When readers first look at Cummings's poems, they often scratch their heads and wonder why there are so many...
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Which poem by Yeats should I choose to compare to "i am a little church' by e.e. cummings? The comparison should be...
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 of the...
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In E.E. Cummings poems, how does his life appear and contradict itself in these works? Please pay attention to these...
“in Just-” is a strong example of Cummings’ topiary style; by varying the line length and indentation, the poem on the printed page takes to shape of the “goat-footed”(read Pan) balloon man. As an...
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In E.E. Cummings, "next to of course god america i" What does the line, "then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"...
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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What is the point that E.E Cummings makes in his poem "next to of course god america i"?
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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What is the author's message in Cummings' poem "next to god of course america i"? ...
One of the excellent effects cummings uses in this poem to convey his message can be detected in the final line of the poem. cummings's work often does not utilize full sentences structured in a...
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In E. E. Cummings' poem, "A Poet's Advice to Students", what is difficult about being a poet according to 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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How can we appreciate "who are you, little i?" by E. E. Cummings? Will anyone explain the poem in detail?
The E. E. Cummings poem “who are you, little i” features, strictly speaking, improper grammar and punctuation. The “i” is not capitalized. There are no spaces between the comma (,), the semicolon...
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What is E. E. Cummings' style?
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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What two poems by e.e. cummings paint a colorful background?
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 view...
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Discuss the sound devices, the sentence devices and the structure devices in "next to of course god america i" by e....
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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I would like to compare "The Wheel" by W. B. Yeats to a poem by e. e. cummings and I do not know what I should...
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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How can I contact the estate for 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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What was E. E. Cummings purpose of writing "next to of course god america i"?
An avowed pacifist dedicated to averting war, Cummings' poem is an indictment of blind patriotism that accompanies most war efforts. In his own life, Cummings experienced the downside of war,...
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In these poems by e.e.cummings, how does his life appear and contradict itself? "In Just-" and "next to of course god...
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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In regards to "[in Just-]" by E. E. Cummings, what is the effect of the arrangement of words on the page as it was...
E. E. Cummings's poem “[in Just-]” provides a unique blend of visual interest, ambiguous content, and a lack of resolution that makes the poem both appealing and a little disturbing. Let's look at...