E. E Cummings

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Have you ever thought of a weird and strange poet. You should try reading one of E.E Cumming poetries. E.E cummings was an artist and a poet, he was fascinated by Pablo Picassos art. He used visual and auditory techniques to make his poems different than the others, he makes the readers try to figure out the meaning of his poem. Sight and sound in E.E Cummings help the reader understand the meaning of the poem. 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 …show more content…

In the last poem in this essay the poem “in Just” is about a balloon man that gets farther and farther away(docC). My evidence to all of the poems is that in every document it has information and the picture of the poem you can try to read the poem to understand its meaning. Now I will be talking about how E.E Cummings uses auditory techniques in his poem. In the poem “In Just” E.E Cummings uses spaces to tell the reader whether to speed up or to slow down, in one part he uses a large space to tell the reader to slow down in another part he writes eddieandbill to tell the reader to speed up (docC). In the poem “O-the-sun-comes-up-up-up-in-the-morning’ E.E Cummings makes the poem rhyme and he also makes the noise

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