Throughout history there have been many poets and some have succeeded while other didn’t have the same luck. But in history e.e. Cummings has stunned people with his creativity and exposure to the real world and not living in the fantasy people imagine they live in. Cummings was a great poet, and was able to make his own way of writing while he was also involved greatly in the modernist movement. But he demonstrates all his uniqueness in all and every poem, delivering people with knowledge and making them see the world with different eyes as in the poem “Since feeling is first”. Biography Born on October 14, 1894, E. E. Cummings an American poet was born at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother had a great influence on his early interest in art and poetry. His father was a Unitarian clergyman and sociology professor at Harvard. He began his interest in writing poetry during his high school career as early as 1904 and he also began learning language such as Latin and Greek in the Cambridge Latin High School. During this time he also shortened his name from Edward Estlin to E. E (Constantakis). Later in his life he decided that he would use all lower case letters when signing his name. In 1911 Cummings began his studies in Harvard. Throughout his college years he worked as an editor for the literary magazine. This would later influence his paintings and poetry. Cummings left Harvard in 1916 with a master’s degree, his first poems where published the next year in the anthology, Eight Harvard Poets. These poems illustrated his early experiments in style and language for which he later became famous for (Constantakis). During World War I Cumming went to war as a volunteer for an ambulance driver in France. He was la... ... middle of paper ... ...til now has been remembered because of his fascinating writing. Works Cited Everett, Nicholas From The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English. Ed. Ian Hamiltong. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Copyright 1994 by Oxford University Press. Kennedy, Richard S. http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00394.html; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Access Date: Sun Mar 18 12:31:47 2001 Copgyright © 2000 American Council of Learned Societies. Publish by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Constantakis, Sara. "Since Feeling Is First." Poetry for Students. Vol. 34. Detroit: Gale / Cengage Learning, 2008. 171-81. Print. Kirsch, Adams. “The Rebellion of E.E Cummings.” http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/03/the-rebellion-of-ee-cumm.html. Eimi (Covici, Friede, 1933) The Enormous Room (Liveright, 1922) - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
Ellmann, Richard and O'Clair, Robert, ed. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) is an American Poet whose works are some of the harder ones to understand. That's what Cummings is known for, his typography, language, punctuation, and his use of capital letters to give words special meanings. It has been stated that he has his own language known as Cummingsian. Cummings has done a lot of experimentation with language along with other poets during the Modernist era.
This source is reliable because it provides all the information needed to write a biography on E.E. Cummings. It has an author’s biography, poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical content, and a critical overview. It gives a brief summary of each line of the poem, so I have a clear understanding of what the poem means. This poem displays Edwards’s poetic innovations that distinguish his verses. Two of Cummings most significant contributions to modern poetry were word play and unusual spatial arrangement.
3. Ellmann, Richard. Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction. p. 797-803. W.W. Norton and Company, 1973.
Beers, G. Kylene, and Lee Odell. "Poetry." Holt Literature & Language Arts. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2003. 413-14. Print.
The poem “since feeling is first” is written by E.E Cummings in a stanza form with a total number of 16 lines. The sentences carry no more than nine words and no less than four words. It is about a man expressing his love to his beloved women. Cummings use of literary devices such as; metaphor, personification, imagery and denotation to express his feelings. “Since feeling is first” is a romantic poem that teaches a lesson about life. Its use of literary devices make the poem appealing to the readers.
Rothenberg, Jerome and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2. Berkeley: University of California, 1998.
Perhaps the next integral portion of E.E. Cummings life was being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 after his return from the French detainment camp and subsequent years of living as a painter. Such an event exposed Cummings to the horrors of warfare, and essentially, challenged his pacifist viewpoints to its fullest capability.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts 1894, Edward Estlin was born to his parents, Edward Cummings and Rebecca Haswell Clarke. In the Cummings house, E.E.'s parents pushed him and his younger sister, Elizabeth, to excel at school. His father being a sociologist and political science teacher at Harvard, made his father propel him to an academic route. His father's insistence had quite an affect on E.E., because he grew to be one of the most intellectual students in his grade. His mother, however, did most day to day housewife work, but secretly encouraged her children to be creative, even reading them poetry before bed. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University graduating in 1916. During his life time he was a poet, writing twelve volumes of poetry, and was also a painter. As a poet, he was first recognized by readers for his unusual ways of phrasing poems and his usage of punctuation. Cummings also wrote traditionally styled verses such as sonnets. Cummings received a number of honors during his lifetime, including an Academy of American Poets Fellowships and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Poetry doesn’t make much sense until you make sense out of it. That is what E.E. Cummings poetry lets us do. He was born in 1894 Cambridge, Massachusetts, E.E. Cummings was an artist and a poet. He was inspired by Cubist and Impressionist painters, but how did he use visual and auditory techniques to create meaning? E.E. Cummings used sight and sound to create meaning for his poems.
E.E. Cummings was one of the most innovative poets in American literature. He is especially known for violating the rules of composition, rejecting punctuation, and capitalization (Costello 1). Cummings wrote prolifically: nearly 800 poems, plays, ballets, fairy tales, and autobiographies (Smelstor 2).
Let me start out this essay by saying: I hate this poem. Never, in my entire life, has a poem made me so angry, so frustrated, so The Ramones-esque. E. E. Cummings usually has a soothing effect on my soul, one which reminds me of the bitter way love can sting or how longing can make a man complete. Naturally, after fruitlessly searching through inappropriate Bukowski poems and skimming through Kerouac, Cummings seemed fit to suit my needs of a poem that “speaks to me.” Thus came “ygUDuh.” I couldn’t understand “ygUDuh” at first; the words were so completely foreign I had to watch a YouTube reading. After already aggravated by the strangeness of the poem, my anger grew as I read it over and over and finally understood it’s meaning. E. E. Cummings’s “ygUDuh” portrays bigotry in an ironic and infuriating way that intrigued me enough to do an essay.
To lovers of literature and more so poetry, Robert Frost delivers his art to the readers in an intimate yet pleasant manner. His first poem was published in 1890 in the high school 's newspaper at the age of sixteen and he continued with poetry during his university and post-university years. He was a jack of many trades, for example, he worked as a factory worker, newspaper reporter, schoolteacher, farmer, and poet. Robert Frost received many honorary degrees from forty universities and was offered professorship positions in top