EE Cummings Research Paper

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his poetry. The people did not appreciate the style of writing Cummings was using, they felt that he was disrespecting the English language.
Cummings decided to go to Harvard, where his father had taught before he became a Unitarian minister. Cummings was educated in the Cambridge Latin School, and in 1915 he received his A.B, graduating Magna cum laude in Greek and English and he also received his A.M. Later on Cummings started to become very interested in the new movements in the arts. He was a very talented man and always was the type to try new things, for example Cummings started to experiment with free verse and taught himself to become a cubist painter. In 1917, the first book appearance of his poems was in Eight Harvard Poets.
Cummings made an announcement explaining the direction of his work and when it would take place. In 1917, Cummings decided to volunteer himself, to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Later on Cummings and his friend William ...

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incredibly different, that some of his poems had to be seen in their printed arrangement before they could be completely understood by anyone other than himself. One of Cummings limes is "The day of the spoken lyric is past," he proclaimed. The poem which has at last taken its place does not sing itself; it builds itself, three dimensionally, gradually, subtly, in the consciousness of the experiencer."
In addition, to Cummings style of writing he expressed ideas through a new type of grammatical usage, he used verbs as nouns, and other worrd creations such as "wherelings" and "whenlings". Cummings took in great excitement while playing around with punctuation and capitalization. In ...

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