Cummings was born on October 14, 1894. Cummings grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his father was a sociology professor at Harvard. Cummings’s imaginative and controversial works place him among the most popular and widely recognized poets of the twentieth century. He wrote poems with themes that more closely resemble the works of English Romantics. Cummings works represent outside the box thinking as well as his simple-minded rhymes. The individual, not the crowd, inspired Cummings’s work.
All of Cummings’s poetry uses metaphors and expression of his inner self. He uses creative placement of words, and unusual punctuation and capitalization. The use of free-verse lyric poems that present an odd glance at his outlook on life are one of his trademarks. The poem “in Just-” comments youth in playful, imaginative, and creative innuendos. Some of these combinations are found in the poem, “in Just-.” They are: “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful,” He uses particular words such as these to define his writing style. In the poem “O sweet spontaneous”, Cummings tells how nature that can only be appreciated fully through the senses rather than through science, philosophy, or religion.
The themes of many of Cummings’s volumes are satiric and anti-war notions. These can be found in “my sweet old etcetera” and “i sing of Olaf glad and big.” Cummings attacks the everyday thinker and robotic like behavior in “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls.” Cummings also wrote sensitive poems such as “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond.” In this poem he tells of love, nature, faith, individualism, and freethinking. Cummings was one of the greatest poets of our time. He produced works that expelled the everyday thought of our generation. He played on words and rhyming verses.
The Term Paper on E E Cummings Poems 1904 1962 Ed George J Firmage New York
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He encouraged freethinking and encouraged all of his readers to be themselves. Cummings well-planned words and metaphors will go down in history as a representation of his unique style. He will always be remembered for his play on punctuation and capitalization. Cummings will be best remembered by this: The individual, not the crowd, inspired his works.
