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By Jessie Sidhu and Liz Abramov

E.E. Cummings. By Jessie Sidhu and Liz Abramov. e.e . cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings 2900 poems 2 autobiographical novels 4 plays Artist as well 1962, second most widely read poet in the USA (after Robert Frost). Biography. Carnbridge , MA 1894 Began writing- 1904 Harvard

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By Jessie Sidhu and Liz Abramov

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  1. E.E. Cummings By Jessie Sidhu and Liz Abramov

  2. e.e. cummings • Edward Estlin Cummings • 2900 poems • 2 autobiographical novels • 4 plays • Artist as well • 1962, second most widely read poet in the USA (after Robert Frost)

  3. Biography • Carnbridge, MA 1894 • Began writing- 1904 • Harvard • 1915- B.A. • 1916- M.A. • Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound • 1917- First Book Eight Harvard Poets

  4. Biography • Named after his father, Edward Cummings • Father-Harvard Graduate • Married three times • 1932- Married Marion Morehouse (model/actress) • 30 years

  5. Biography • 5 months ambulance driver in World War II • Sent to French prison camp • Novel: The Enormous Room • Traveled through Europe • Pablo Picasso • Elizabethan Song, 18th Century Satire, Pindaric Ode • Buried in Boston, MA (1962)

  6. Honors Academy of American Poets Fellowship Two Guggenheim Fellowships Charles Eliot Norton Professorship (Harvard) Bollinger Prize in Poetry (1958) Ford Foundation Grant

  7. Poets Style • Disordered syntax + typographical disarrangements • Arranged derangement, integers of the word • curve of ‘e’, rhythm of ‘m’, astonishment of ‘o’ • Word coinage  kept already existing root words, joining to them new affixes

  8. Poets Style Tmesis his signature Varied use of parentheses “Visual stanza” not rhyme/ meter, but shape thought Visual appearance of most poems=based on interest in contemporary art forms

  9. Poets style • Analysis of words into parts • Both syllables and individual letters • Use of space + punctuation marks • Comma used where period is expected • Words were literary art • If the printer messed up on a word- interfere with his “arrangement”

  10. Positive Criticism At early age, most critics thought of him as a potential lyric & satiric poet Critics believed that his innovative verse techniques & his lyric/satiric talents successfully blended Structure of poems connected to meaning of poems

  11. Negative Criticism • Thought techniques were: • Cheap and shallow • not poetic • Style made critics upset, said it was; • Unusual and thought style to call attention to itself rather than to describe a theme • Objected explicit treatment of sexuality • Believe style didn’t evolve throughout career • Structure drew readers’ attention from actual poem • Many critics believed he didn’t develop much as a writer through his career

  12. e.e. cummings “I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries… that ‘an artist, a man, a failure’ is… a naturally and miraculously whole human being… whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.” Unique poet Original artist Incredible modernist poet of consequence

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