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Eileen Doyle- Samay and Lisa Bond

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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Eileen Doyle- Samay and Lisa Bond

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  1. 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

  2. Biography • Born in Cambridge, MA on October 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

  3. More biography • Died September 3, 1962 • was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost • Father died in 1926

  4. Criticisms of the Critics • Disliked greatly in his time period • Called hard to read and understand • Accepted by his peers • settling into his signature style and not pressing his work towards further evolution • great popularity among young readers, (Because of talk of war and sex) and writing simplicity

  5. Literary Devices • Symbolism • Powerful Imagery • Similes • Repetition • Oxymoronic juxtaposition

  6. Poetic Structure • Disjointed structure • Punctuation

  7. Works Cited  • Work Cited • Cummings, E. E. Complete Poems 1913-1962. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Print. • Reef, Catherine. E. E. Cummings: A Poet's Life. New York: Clarion, 2006. Print. • Gunton, Sharon R. Contemporary Literary Criticisms. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Print. • eecummings reads "Somewhere I have never travelled..."Youtube. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • - -. "E. E. Cummings." Enotes. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2012. • Modern American Poetry. "Paintings by E. E. Cummings." Modern American Poetry. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • Thurman, Caryn. "E. E. Cummings." Literary Kicks. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • American Writers Vol. I. N.p.: University of Minnesota, 1974. Print. • - -. "E. E. Cummings." Internal.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • "E. E. Cummings." Poets.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • Bucken. "Grasshopper Info." Titans. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. • Ruspoli, Tao. E.E. Cummings Poem LVI. Youtube. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

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