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E. E. Cummings “I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries…that an artist, a man, a failure is…a naturally and miraculously whole human being…whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.”. Eileen Doyle- Samay and Lisa Bond.
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E. E. Cummings“I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries…that an artist, a man, a failure is…a naturally and miraculously whole human being…whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.” Eileen Doyle-Samay and Lisa Bond
Biography • Born in Caimbridge, massachussetteson Octobeer 14th, 1894 • Father was a Harvard professor, then a Unitarian minister • Mother introduced him to writing • Founded Harvard Poetry Society • Through a printers error his signature developed
More biography • 1926: father died
Criticisms of the Critics • Disliked greatly in his time period • Called hard to read and understand • Accepted by his peers
Literary Devices • Symbolism • Powerful Imagery • Similes • Repetition • Oxymoronic juxtaposition
Poetic Structure • Disjointed structure • Punctuation