Ee Cummings Rhetorical Analysis

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E.E. Cummings, the poet who got paid for publishing poems with crazy indentation and moo-woos. E. E. Cummings lived in America in the 1900’s and was a painter as well as a poet. How did E. E. Cummings use auditory and visual techniques in his poems to create a deeper meaning? E. E. Cummings creates meaning in his poems by using Auditory and visual techniques at the disposal. First of all, E.E. Cummings used visual techniques to show meaning. He uses punctuation and spacing to show things described in the poem. In the poem “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-g-a-r”(Doc B) he uses spacing to make a picture of a grasshopper. In the same poem, he also uses to a semicolon at the end to show how the grasshopper isn’t finished “grasshopper;”(Doc B). Relating to this,

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