Various works of ee cummings
Various works of ee cummingsVarious Works of EE Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, famously known as E. E. Cummings, had a very unique way of writing his poetry. The way his poems were written are what many critics admire most. He brushed aside the rules of English and allowed his art to shine through. He lived from 1894 to the year 1962. He has written hundreds of poems in his career. Many of his poems are hard to understand or translate. They have to be meticulously dissected to understand their true or hidden meaning. Many of his poems look like garbled gibberish at a glance, but under close inspection are works of a true poet.
One of the most famous poems of E. E. Cummings is "l(a". Since he always had a unique way of writing, he also rarely had a title for his poems, thus, the first line would represent his title. In the following poem, one may wonder what is being said.
"l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness" (Cummings 1)
For the inexperienced reader, this poem would look like meaningless letters put
together in a non-sentence structure. When this poem is looked at from a puzzle point
of view, one begins to put his puzzle together. When read appropriately, the poem then reads "a leaf falls in loneliness." His style was an unbelievable break through in poetry for his time, and still is today. The originality of E. E. Cummings's poems has been surpassed by few and possibly by no other poets. He has written many poems that have the same structure as "l(a".
"In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Later in his career, he was often criticized for settling into his signature style and not pressing his work towards further evolution. Nevertheless, he attained great popularity, especially among young readers, for the simplicity of his language, his playful mode and his attention to subjects such as war and sex. At the time of his death in 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost." (Navasky 1)
One would have to agree with the person who wrote the previous statement. The way E. E. Cummings wrote his poetry would grab one's interest the moment he/she lays eyes upon Cummings's work. His work may have appealed to a younger audience in the past, but now his poems are cherished by millions. E. E. Cummings and Robert Frost were both very famous during the time of Cummings's writing. One may believe that they both had great works, but E. E. Cummings opened a door to poetry that had rarely been explored before.
In the following E. E. Cummings'...
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