Fisher 1 Shawna Fisher Dr. Gregory Stratman LITR-221 September 1, 2017 Who the Balloon Man is to E. E. Cummings E. E. Cummings writing is unique in many ways, to say the least. It was not written in normal, everyday language. Punctuation and capitalization was missing in his writings. Most of his writings meant something that he had experienced in his lifetime. “In Just”, was once of these writings that carried great significance to E. E. Cummings. So, who exactly is the “Balloon Man” to E. E. Cummings? Winter can be long and exhausting. The weather is usually cold and gray. Children are aching to get outside and play in the warm sun and without their restricting coats. E. E. Cumming’s intro showed the excitement he faced as a child. He looked forward to Springtime and all the joys that came with that season. Flowers are in bloom, kids are playing, kids are laughing, and you hear the balloon man whistling in the background. It can be assumed that E. E. Cummings had a mostly enjoyable childhood. His poem “In Just” depicts his feelings. A visual picture is drawn and etched into your brain as you read the words “puddle-wonderful” and “mud-luscious”. Symbolism was used greatly to describe feelings and to set the stage for his writings. The details given make the person feel like he or she is living the same story. Depending on the reader, his description can be taken a couple of different ways. He can be taken as a goofy and odd man with awkward feet, as a goat or a creepy and evil person who hangs around children. If E. E. Cummings had a personal attachment to Springtime and his happy childhood, it seems that this balloon man was a normal man that was eccentric and enjoyed making creations from his balloons for the children. The children stopped what they were doing when they hear the balloon man’s whistle, as told in the story. You hear the excitement in their cries of
We've all seen him -- the aged man, alone in his lst years, living on memories and an occasional trip into a bottle. Eben Flood, the main and only character in "Mr. Flood's Party," written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is that aged man. He has a past that no one in town really remembers, except him. No one remembers his accomplishments; no one remembers his failures. He's just an old man who finds himself alone at the end of his life.
Dr. Seuss's original fable is a simple story told with a great moral that criticizes the commercialization of Christmas. The original story features an “Ebenezer Scrooge” type creature that lives up the mountains outside "Whoville." The Grinch indulges himself in the annual ritual of spoiling everyone's festivities with a series of nasty pranks. This particular year however he plans to sabotage the holiday season by dressing as Santa Claus, clim...
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”.
Although he is filled with misery, he feels a moment of peace and tranquility when he becomes surrounded by the beauty of nature.
Edgar Allan Poe was a very interesting person he continued to write throughout the years even though he had hard times and good times and he left his legacy of all kinds of poems and short stories to remember him by so as I’ve studied and read I will let you read this interesting’s man’s life.
Cummings' peculiar method of using syntax to convey hidden meaning is extremely effective. The reader does not simply read and forget Cummings' ideas; instead, he must figure out the hidden meaning himself. In doing this, he feels contentment, and thus retains the poem's idea for a more extended period of time. Cummings' ideogram poems are puzzles waiting to be solved.
As stated by Robin Williams, “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it” (brainyquote.com). Robin Williams was a self-acclaimed comedian and actor. His work in many movies and his comedy shows made him an icon for people everywhere. Throughout his life he brought smiles and happiness to everyone who watched him. Exploring Robin Williams early life, career, and death can help one gain a deeper understanding of his life and struggles.
...number of visual effects in his poetry. He combined the lack of punctuation, capitalization, and creative spacing with his topics, such as the seasons, to convey his messages. Some readers find the visual effects in his poems disconcerting and feel that they are meaningless because of it. However, others find his visual effects helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of his poems and the messages he was trying to convey. Cummings' poems were definitely meant to be viewed rather than simply listened to so that the reader can benefit from the full effect of them. His poetry does not follow traditional rules and is very unpredictable. As a result, they leave more room for your imagination to soar.
Christmas is a season for all ages young or old, but for this eleven year old east coast boy, from Cape Breton, it is a source of conflict and a coming of age. In the short story “To Every Thing There is a Season”, Alistair MacLeod makes three arguments that captures the main themes and conflicts within the story, ignorance to knowledge, innocence to reality, and idealization to realism. MacLeod short story is a metaphor for growing up and a rite of passage.
And this is where we start with our image. Then Oliver adds, “began here this morning and all day” (2-3) which immediately changes your image to this beginning of the day where the snow is only just starting to fall. Also, Oliver seems to personify the snow by saying “it’s white rhetoric everywhere”(4-5) by giving the sense of knowledge to the snow. Oliver is showing this knowledge that the snow has by playing with this word “rhetoric” meaning having the art of persuasive speaking, so it shows how this snow is grabbing our attention. And then it continues with “calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty and what the meaning;” (6-8) this changes your image of snow greatly to making you think of snow as a greater power leading you to seek questions. This is an automatic change from snow to self. Then it transitions back to the focus back on snow, “flowing past windows,” (9-10) and you are then again transferred back to this image of snow fluttering through the wind, but you also have your thoughts of the unknown and you are relating it to the snow all of this unknown is just floating
At the point when Guy moves in the opposite direction of his significant other of numerous years demonstrates he’s lost enthusiasm for her. The main thing Guy wants is the freedom from everything which the hot air balloon remains for. “But since he doesn’t own the balloon, neither it nor its promise of escape can ever be his.” (Tigro 1) The words Little Guy speaks are from the lines of Boukman which causes the walking development in his dad’s brain.
Edgar Allan Poe was a man considered by many to be the personification of Death. He is regarded as a true American Genius whose works seized and frightened the minds of millions. However, Poe greatly differed from other acclaimed authors of his time. He had a unique writing style that completely altered the reality surrounding his readers. Rather than touch their hearts with lovable fictional characters he found a way of expressing himself that no other author had at the time. Poe’s combination of demented genius and difficult past experiences led him to become one of the greatest writers of all time.
...roversy over the sanity, or at best the maturity of Poe (Paul Elmer More called him “the poet of unripe boys and unsound men”), it was the question of the value of Poe’s works as serious literature (Gale Research p.5).
E.E Cummings’ poem “ i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)” show’s exactly what people truly feel, it’s as if he yanked someones feelings straight from their heart and put them on paper. This poem is the best explanation of true love, that there is. He says, that this woman is his love, he will love her forever, and no matter how far she may be from him, she will still be in his heart. Nothing could ever make his feelings for her fade away. When someone really truly loves someone, nothing could make them stop loving that person. They will always have a special place in each others hearts. Cummings starts out saying in the first stanza that she is in his heart, then in the second stanza it grows into her being his world, nothing means more to him. Now, in the third stanza he tells her that she is his biggest secret, a mystery to everyone else. Lastly, the most meaningful part of the poem, in my opinion is the last stanza, where he simply states. “I carry your heart(I carry it in my heart)”(line 14). It seems so simple, but after going deep in explanation about his love, that small statement has a much bigger meaning than it did in the first stanza. In this beautiful poem, "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in", E.E Cummings shows how permanent his undying love is for this woman, and how no one and nothing in the world will ever mean more to him, He uses themes of love, and possibly longing for this woman in this poem, to possibly teach the reader how to love, or to stay loyal no matter how tough of a fight that may be.
When a man becomes old and has nothing to look forward to he will always look back, back to what are called the good old days. These days were full of young innocence, and no worries. Wordsworth describes these childhood days by saying that "A single Field which I have looked upon, / Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? " (190) Another example of how Wordsworth uses nature as a way of dwelling on his past childhood experiences is when he writes "O joy!