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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: anyone lived in a pretty how town
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Oct 27 2000
Comment 172 of 172, added on May 7th, 2009 at 1:25 AM.
e.e cummings was known for never using capital letters or punctuation in any of his poems, something that the literary world has come to know as breaking the rules to traditional poetry. In "anyone lived in a pretty how town" he uses the four seasons as time passing by, as well as the addition of the bell. Cummings writes "Women and men (both dong and ding)" not only to show the effect of a bell ringing, meaning time passing by, but also because of a self experience and having his first marriage only lasting less than a year.
Nacho Collazo from United States
Comment 171 of 172, added on May 7th, 2009 at 12:27 AM.
Anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings in a poem about life and love. It is structured so that it almost as a bouncy rhythm to it due to the rhyme pattern. With a style that makes you have to reread it a couple times to understand because its worded so differently then most everything you read, and the grammar just makes you tongue twist and you mouth stutter.
Jonathan Cravens from United States
Comment 170 of 172, added on May 6th, 2009 at 11:23 PM.
Throughout this poem Cummings is not ignorant of the traditional usage of his
words; he plays and manipulates the function of grammar, often using a verb as a proper noun or an adjective as a conjunction. The poem is written in the past tense up until it reaches stanza 8 in which it, for solely one stanza, switches to the present. Throughout this piece of poetry, rather than capitalize the proper names, Cummings resorts to singularly capitalizing “Women and Men” (Cummings 5).
Katie Cleveland from United States
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e.e cummings was known for never using capital letters or punctuation in any of his poems, something that the literary world has come to know as breaking the rules to traditional poetry. In "anyone lived in a pretty how town" he uses the four seasons as time passing by, as well as the addition of the bell. Cummings writes "Women and men (both dong and ding)" not only to show the effect of a bell ringing, meaning time passing by, but also because of a self experience and having his first marriage only lasting less than a year.
Nacho Collazo from United States