E. E. CUMMINGS

Soojin Kim, Tim Kim, Flora Kim, Hijo Byeon,

DK Lee

E.E CUMMINGS

E.E CUMMINGS’S STYLE

Non-traditional, experimental

Spare and precise (uses few key words)

Uses some invented words (combining two common words into a new

synthesis

Uses words as “if” “am” “because” as nouns, assigning his own meanings

to words (meaning > correct grammar)

Often used the pronoun “i” in the lower case, to show that self is not

always as important as it seems

Used capital words when he wanted to emphasize them ex) Humanity i

love you

WHAT IF A MUCH OF A WHICH OF A WIND

Emotion : cynical, powerful, demanding,

Image 1 : Nature will not cease to exist; only creature who can

change it is the man.

Image 2 : extended personification of nature describing seasonal

change from winter to spring.

Image 3 : A man sitting in a field watching the nature and the sky.

Idea : Everything changes as the time passes by. The more

generations the world goes through, the more the world develops.

WHAT IF A MUCH OF A WHICH OF A WIND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mds9MpIvsKc

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-if-a-much-

of-a-which-of-a-wind

/

SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELED GLADLY BEYOND

“somewhere i have never traveled gladly beyond”

-e.e. cummings

Profound feelings of love- stronger than anything in nature.

metaphysical, abstract ideas

Personifies the season of spring

Roses, eyes

An Image of a woman. (“ frail gesture”..)

SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELED GLADLY BEYOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5yAtmMla4

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/

15401

ANYONE LIVED IN A PRET TY HOW TOWN

Symbolism, figurative

“Anyone” and “Noone” are CHARACTERS

Expresses two people’s love, and people’s

independence/individualism at the same time

(paradox)

Image: passing of time, life cycle, two lovers

Emotion, lonely, isolated

ANYONE LIVED IN A PRET TY HOW TOWN

Poem -

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1540

3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCisOgvzBs

CREDITS

Hijo – slide 1, 6

Soojin – slide 2, 7

Flora – slide 3, 8

Tim – slide 4, 9

DK – slide 5

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