search paper) E.E. Cummings (re In the realm of poetry, punctuation has always been seen (to the ignorant eye) as a lesser tool in the development of a poem. The poet E. E. Cummings sought to change the seemingly necessary formalities in poetic writing by utilizing punctuation in a way very different than that which is defined in a grammar textbook. Punctuation has the capability of developing just as much meaning as literary devices, forms, and meters. Cummings’s work transcends the common usage of the parenthesis in a manner that is unorthodox but still effective in its purpose. Cummings utilizes parenthesis in his poems to create intimacy between the speaker and the reader, physically establish metaphors and themes, subvert formal expectations, and create a poem within a poem. Cummings often uses parenthesis to create intimacy between another and the speaker; he does so by directly addressing this person who at times is the reader, but at other times someone else. In of all things under our the parentheses enclose the words “eliena,my dear.” At the end of the poem we found out that eliena is dead, so instead of the ending being a naïve address to someone it is in fact an apostrophe. Eliena’s …show more content…
In i carry your heart with me(i carry it in the parentheses act to realize the metaphor “I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart).” The poem is a series of statements that are both outside and inside the parentheses. Each statement is followed by a parallel statement in the parentheses which helps establish that the speaker is never without the person to whom he/she is referring. The parentheses also act out the metaphor of the person’s existence in the speaker’s heart. In the second quatrain “you” is in the parentheses where “i” is on the outside. The parentheses act as a typographical symbol of the speaker’s heart; the parentheses symbolize the person being inside the speaker’s
Throughout history there have been many poets and some have succeeded while others didn’t have the same luck. But in history e.e. Cummings has stunned people with his creativity and exposure to the real world and not living in the fantasy people imagine they live in. Cummings was a great poet, and was able to make his own way of writing while he was also involved greatly in the modernist movement. But he demonstrates all his uniqueness in all and every poem, delivering people with knowledge and making them see the world with different eyes as in the poem “Since feeling is first”. Biography Born on October 14, 1894, E. E. Cummings an American poet was born at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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simile is in the line, “bearing it in his arms like an awkward bouquet.” Describing how the speaker’s
Harper begins the poem by detailing the start of the speaker’s relationship with a man, developing it through the use of metaphor and concrete diction. From the first few lines of the poem, the reader learns that the relationship was destined to be futile through Harper’s use of metaphor: “If when standing all alone/ I cried for bread a careless world/ pressed
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Not only the words, but the figures of speech and other such elements are important to analyzing the poem. Alliteration is seen throughout the entire poem, as in lines one through four, and seven through eight. The alliteration in one through four (whisky, waltzing, was) flows nicely, contrasting to the negativity of the first stanza, while seven through eight (countenance, could) sound unpleasing to the ear, emphasizing the mother’s disapproval. The imagery of the father beating time on the child’s head with his palm sounds harmful, as well as the image of the father’s bruised hands holding the child’s wrists. It portrays the dad as having an ultimate power over the child, instead of holding his hands, he grabs his wrists.
Although one may think of 'la" as a poem of sadness and loneliness, Cummings probably did not intend that. This poem is about individuality - oneness. The theme of oneness can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, "la" contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i'.
apostrophe, extended metaphor, and irony, in order to develop the speaker as a character. Those three poetic devices are particularly evident in lines 65-79 of"Lady Lazarus."
In his poem "l(a", the words are arranged in such a way that they are falling down the page. He only puts several letters of each word on a line and then continues to spell the word down the page. The main focus of the poem is about loneliness and the words almost appear to be "lonely." He uses parentheses around the phrase "a leaf falls," which appears in the middle of the poem. The remaining letters in the poem spell "loneliness." When these are placed together in the same poem, it creates an effect that there is a leaf falling from a tree to the ground where it will be lonely because it will be separated from the tree. Cummings emphasizes the image of being alone or aloof by using two versions of the word one. On the first line, he uses the letter "l," which also looks like the number "1." On ...
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