E.E. Cummings was a unique poet who bent the way that poetry was made, and he made his style his own. Edward Estlin Cummings was born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He started writing poetry when he was a child, and ended up going to Harvard University. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. ` First, E.E. Cummings used visual techniques to create his poetry and make it unique. For example, in Document A if you spell out the words and letters it says “a leaf falls”. If you look at the way it was placed it looks like a leaf or object falling. Another word in the poem is ‘loneliness”, which can signify that the leaf is lonely or that E.E. Cummings is lonely. In this poem the visual …show more content…
Cummings used auditory techniques to make his poetry even more unique. For example, in Document C if you say the poem out loud there will be times where you have to speed up or make wide pauses. Like when it says, “eddieandbill”, you are going to have to speed up if you say it out loud because there are not any pauses. Another example is “far and wee”, which is separated from each other and has wide spaces so that would mean that if you said that out loud you would have to create big pauses. In this poem the auditory techniques that E.E. Cummings used is that he separated words for big pauses and sometimes wrote words with no pauses so that it would sound rushed. Another example is in Document D he described a lot of the noises that the animals were making like “Who-horns says-does moo-woo”. Which I think is a cow mooing. Another example is when it says “scratch and scratch-scrunch”, it has the same repetitive sound of the consonant which was s. In this poem the auditory techniques that E.E. Cummings used was onomatopoeia and alliteration. So, that explains how E.E. Cummings used auditory techniques to make his poetry unique and his own type of
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
As the Reconstruction Era ended, the United States became the up and coming world power. The Spanish-American war was in full swing, and the First World War was well on its way. As a result of the open-door policy, England, Germany, France, Russia, and eventually Japan experienced rapid industrial growth; the United States decided to pursue a foreign policy because of both self- interest and idealism. According to the documents, Economic self- interest, rather than idealism was more significant in driving American foreign policy from 1895 to 1920 because the United States wanted to protect their foreign trade, property and their access to recourses. While the documents also show that Nationalistic thought (idealism) was also crucial in driving American foreign policy, economic Self- interest prevailed.
Many poets use different literary devices in poems to express their ideas and thoughts in an artistic way.
In the colonization period, the urge to conquer foreign territories was strong, and many lands in the Western Hemisphere were conquered. With the colonization of these areas, a mercantilist relationship was formed between the conquered civilization and the maternal country. A major part of this was the restriction of exportation of native resources only to the mother country as well as the banning of trading with colonies of other countries. In turn, there was an increasing in the number of smuggling activities during the time. According to a British sailor named William Taggart in 1760, the illegal smuggling of goods into these areas had a positive impact because it brought prosperity to the people in Monte Christi, as there were only one hundred poor families. Likewise, Dominica governor John Orde praised the trading because it created prices much lower than with its maternal country. However, British admiral David Tyrell, Roger Elletson, Dominica governor John Orde, and a 1790 Bahaman newspaper report all had similar views on the harmful effects and corruptness present in smuggling. Despite this, physician George Lipscomb and British Lieutenant Governor Thomas Bruce had neutral opinions on the matter, and only stated what they witnessed in the process.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894. He earned a BA from Harvard and volunteered to go to France during World War I with the Ambulance Corps. After the war, he stayed in Paris, writing and painting, and later returned to the US. He died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1962. Cummings is one of the most innovative contemporary poets, he used unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements - namely, ideograms. Cummings' most difficult form of poetry is probably the ideogram; it is extremely terse and it combines both visual and auditory elements. There may be sounds or characters on the page that cannot be verbalized or cannot convey the same message if pronounced and not read. Four of Cummings' poems "la," "mortals," "!blac," and "swi" illustrate the ideogram form quite well. Cummings utilizes unique syntax in these poems in order to convey messages visually as well as verbally.
He uses powerful imagery and onomatopoeia to achieve the desired effects that make the poem more realistic. All this combined together produces effective thought provoking ideas and with each read, I gradually get an improved understanding and appreciation of the poem.
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly referred to as E. E. Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a source of vast knowledge and was responsible for many creative works other than his poetry, such as novels, plays, and paintings. He published his first book of poetry Tulips and Chimneys in 1923. Many of his poems are known for the visual effects they create through his unusual placement of words on the page, as well as, his lack of punctuation and capitalization. The manner in which Cummings arranges the words of his poems creates an image in the reader's mind of the topic he is discussing, such as a season or climbing stairs. His visual style also brings emotions, such as loneliness or cheerfulness, to the reader's mind. Due to this creativity, Cummings won many awards, such as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in poetry (Marks 17).
I found “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E. E. Cummings difficult. One interesting feature of the poem is that it isn’t punctuated with commas or periods, so the poem flows. However, it also makes it difficult for the reader to read since they don’t know when to end a sentence. Also, the use of verbs as nouns and the repetition of words which don’t seem to make sense makes the poem challenging to understand. However, I tried to decipher the meanings depending on the context. For example, “he sang his didn’t he danced his did” uses verbs as a substitute for nouns, but the author doesn’t explain what the “did” and “didn’t” represent (4). It seems like it means that he had a fun and carefree life since he was singing and dancing in contrast
In poems, imagery is used to help get the writers’ message across in a language that is extremely visual. The poet wants
“It takes courage to become who you really are” and in E. E. Cummings work you can notice who he truly is and how he is not afraid to show it. E. E. Cummings work takes place in his birth state which is in Cambridge Massachusetts in the 20th century. Numerous people that now read his poetry, envision the auditory and visual techniques that are used in his work. How does E. E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? He uses visual techniques with things like spaces, he uses spaces to cause the reader to slow down or speed up (Doc C).
Cummings work is his pattern use of metaphors. Metaphors, much like capitalization make up a great deal of the poetry E.E. Cummings writes. In the poem “I Have Found What You Are Like”, this use of metaphors can be seen through the entirety of the poem. A great example of this is the metaphor; “...your smile is/stirringofbirds…”. The effect of this is for the reader (who has no knowledge of “you” prior to reading the poem) to understand what he sees and what he feels when he see’s “You’s” smile, even though they might not know them.
Edgar Allen Poe’s alliteration and repetition of words support the poem’s flow and musicality. Poe begins with the alliteration of the m sound in “merriment” and “melody” (3). The soft m sound, also known as a liquid consonant, helps to keep a quick and continuous pace for the poem. Similarly, the alliteration of the s sounds in sledges, silver, stars, and seem, emphasize the calming sounds of the bells (1-2, 6-7). The s sound helps express the soothing and comforting effects of the bells, essentially contributing to the merry tone of the poem. Furthermore, the alliteration of t...
First of all, E.E Cummings uses visual techniques to create meaning in his poems, like in his poem r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r he makes the poem look like the trail of a grasshopper (doc B). In the poem “l(a” the poem looks like if the poem is falling down and there is a shape of an L which is for loneliness(doc A). in the poem “o the sun comes up-up-up in the opening” that E.E Cummings made he describes how it
The words become a symbol of a slow moving river and as the reader travels along the river, they are also traveling through each stanza. This creates a scene where the viewer can turn words into symbols while in reality they are just reading text. Coleridge is also able to illustrate a suspension of the mind through imagery; done so by producing images that are unfixed to the reader.... ... middle of paper ...