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in Just- e. e. cummings (1894-1962) ==

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e. e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962) more commonly known as e. e. Cummings, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings was infatuated with the avant-garde writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. In France as a volunteer ambulance driver and later interned in a French prison camp under suspicion of espionage due to his outspoken anti war beliefs.  Cummmings made a name for himself as he was one of the first poets to stride past traditional poetry and experiment radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, leaving traditional techniques and structures behind. Cummings was the first to create a new, hight idiosyncratic means of poetic expression.

The Name... Cummings himself used both the lowercase and capitalized versions, though he most often signed his name with capitals. The oddity of how his name was meant to be read was in part to accent the peculiarity of the orthography of his poetry.

The Poem
in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman

whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bestyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee

T.I.M.E
Theme: __Youth__- The poem refers to youth through the repeated references to children, springtime, whistling and whole lot more fun as the words dance along the page. __Innocence__- This whole poem is discussing innocence or ending of innocence, spring is a short season which represents maturity and beware the goat-footed man watching... whistling.

Imagery: Lines 1-2: The creation of a new word, "Just-spring," becomes an attempt to forge a new set of symbolic references for the world of the poem. Lines 2-3: Repeating the "u" sounds in "mud-luscious" is a form of assonance which helps us to hear the two words as one. Lines 8-9: The repetition of the simple phrase "and/ it’s spring" creates a cyclical feeling for the reader which mimics the changing of the seasons. Line 10: Cummings uses a great deal of Alliteration. The repeating "w"s makes the entire line seem wet.

Meter: WHHAATTTTT!?!?! How could you find meter in this ridiculous poem?!? The meter is free meaning there is no clear meter. There are stanzas of four lines followed by a refrain. There is a hint of a waltz, ONE, two three.

Emotion: The emotion of this poem seems to be very hopeful like a young sprout. Through this hopefulness there is a sense of despair as the lurking darkness follows around the corner.

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Works Cited

2015.Cummings, Michael J. "Meter in Poetry and Verse." Meter in Poetry and Verse. Cummingsstudyguides, 2006. "E. E. Cummings." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d "E. E. Cummings." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d.