Ee Cummings Biography

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E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings more commonly known as EE Cummings was born October 14. He went to Harvard College and began writing poetry around 1904. He unfortunately died of a brain hemorrhage on September 3, 1962. However, he remains very popular. Influenced by many poets and situations he was in, EE Cummings invented his very own unique style of writing which is hailed by critics even today (Anderson).
Cummings was influenced by many different things. His father was a school teacher at Harvard and he became one as well. Many of his writings came from personal experiences, for example when he was a prisoner in France during the war led him to write the “enormous room.” Which became very popular and something he is most known for. He also spent time in the ambulance corps, which is a medical team that helps people that cannot go to the hospital. When E.E. Cummings married his wife his work became more calm, melodramatic, and somewhat erotic. Many different poets influenced Cummings by giving him the inspiration to create his own personal writing style. Gertrude stein, Amy Lowell, Ezra pound, and of course his wife: His wife Elaine influenced him to write very erotic poems, which mainly everyone loved. Gertrude Stein influenced him to create pictures in his writing. She was an artist and sometimes a writer. Many of the pictures that came with his poems were because of her. Amy Lowell was a free verse writer she also used sonnets most of the time. Cummings also used the sonnet for his poem structure he is actually known for the English sonnet. An English sonnet consists of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, it also has a rhyme pattern of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, and GG. The language OF Ezra pound is what infl...

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...re influenced by his style but they have yet to sound as great as Cummings. I personally think that Cummings is a great writer. The way he used different word to mean different think is pretty awesome. I wish I was smart enough to write like E.E. Cummings. I also think it is terrible that no one really appreciated his poetry till he died; he will never know how great people really think he is. And no one can really ask him how he really came up with all is ideas. This is all purely opinion, he not here to challenge any of these ideas. (Arthros).
Today Cummings work is still known and definitely still great. “Cummings has written at least a dozen poems that seem to me matchless. Three are among the great love poems of our time or any time” (Malcolm Cowley). By using the influences brought to him Cummings used everything to his advantage and became a literary legacy.

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