E E Cummings Essay Research Paper Anyone

E. E. Cummings Essay, Research Paper

Anyone lived in a pretty how town

anyone lived in a pretty how town

(with up so floating many bells down)

spring summer autumn winter

he sang his didn’t he danced his did.

Women and men(both little and small)

cared for anyone not at all

they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same

sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few

and down they forgot as up they grew

autumn winter spring summer)

that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf

she laughed his joy she cried his grief

bird by snow and stir by still

anyone’s any was all to her

someones married their everyones

laughed their cryings and did their dance

(sleep wake hope and then)they

said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon

(and only the snow can begin to explain

how children are apt to forget to remember

with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess

(and noone stooped to kiss his face)

busy folk buried them side by side

little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep

and more by more they dream their sleep

noone and anyone earth by april

wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)

summer autumn winter spring

reaped their sowing and went their came

sun moon stars rain

up into the silence the green

up into the silence the green

silence with a white earth in it

you will (kiss me) go

out into the morning the young

morning with a warm world in it

(kiss me) you will go

on into the sunlight the fine

sunlight with a firm day in it

you will go (kiss me

down into your memory and

a memory and memory

i) kiss me (will go)

once like a spark

(once like a spark)

if strangers meet

life begins-

not poor not rich

(only aware)

kind neither

nor cruel

(only complete)

i not not you

not possible;

only truthful

-truthfully,once

if strangers(who

deep our most are

selves)touch:

forever

(and so to dark)

E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet who stood in stark constrast of style than poets of his day. His poetry rejected most rules of English grammar and syntax. Cummings modernism and experimental style culminated in his radical poetic language. Cummings used several reoccuring themes in his works. These include the celebration of individualism, love and the essence of spring. This artistic experamentalism can be synthesized out of his trancendental ideas. In analyzing his poetry it is necessary to outline the basics of Cummings quirky style. Before all else, his poems must be read a first time to grasp the topography. This means to read and figure out where specific words are placed, and their meaning in that position. Cummings, in his own eccentric way, would use this positioning in conjuction with other grammatical idiosyncrisies to express himself. These other quirks would include using desired capitalization rather than when appropriate, incorrect use of parenthesis and other puncuation, as well as incorrect use of grammar. In the analysis of the poems, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town , Once like a Spark , Up into the Silence the Green as well as any other of Cummings poems, it necessary to remember that he is best understood when approached on his own terms. In trying to understand meaning in his work it is necessary to avoid simple linguistic interpretation and focus on what the deeper meaning is.

In Once Like a Spark , he uses the charcters and calls them strangers. While using this name he is in fact stating certain things. Firstly, he is addressing the theme. This theme is corralated in Cummings trancendental view that only through experience are people aware of things around them. In lines 2-5 it reads, If strangers meet – life begins – not poor not rich – (only aware) . The stangers are the only people who are aware of themsleves. They know who they are and have purpose, but are strangers to those who look at them. The poem at its center is about breaking out of routine and becoming an individual. This is stressed throughout the entire poem. Cummings uses the following phrases for emphasis on his theme, Only aware , Only complete , Only truthful . He is stating only these people who have become strangers to the collective have truly attained their humanity. Although the piece does not have a title, the first line, once like a spark , has to do with the attaining of indiviudalism. It s a spark of knowlegde, of greatness, and of love that helps us attain our position in life. The last line, in my opinion, has to do with with the ignoring of this spark. And so to dark , seems like a punishment and chastizing. It is the loss of self, and entrance into the collective. There is one phrase that truly encapsulates this poems message, strangers(who deep are most are selves) .

Cummings poem, Up into the silence the gre

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