An Interpretation of E.E. Cummings' Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) is an American Poet whose works are some of the harder ones to understand. That's what Cummings is known for, his typography, language, punctuation, and his use of capital letters to give words special meanings. It has been stated that he has his own language known as Cummingsian. Cummings has done a lot of experimentation with language along with other poets during the Modernist era. Not only
passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas’ "Fern Hill" and Cummings’ "anyone lived in a pretty how town," both modern poets utilize a juxtaposition of paradoxes to express the irrevocable passage of time and the loss of innocence attributed to it. While Thomas projects his mature feelings into a nostalgic site of his childhood, Cummings takes a more detached approach by telling a seemingly trivial, paradoxical story of "noone" and "anyone," which through negation tells a universal life story. "Fern
“Anyone lived in a pretty how town,” by E.E. Cummings, is a poem that alludes to the circle of life and how birth and death are a natural part of this cycle. This meaning is conveyed by a complex metaphor; broken down, this metaphor slides away to reveal the true social commentary behind it. This poem is an allegory; the speaker uses pronouns with unclear antecedents to mask the true meaning and add poetic flair to the simple belief he or she presents. The first poetic device the speaker uses to
E. E. Cummings ' "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is often interpreted as a love poem (Macksoud 72), but it can be analyzed more deeply to reflect societal themes. Cummings ' use of grammar and punctuation is unconventional and at the same time organized in a way that draws the reader to certain conclusions about the way the citizens of the "how town" live. None of the protagonists are given a name, and yet knowing their titles—"anyone," "women and men," "children," "someone," "everyone," and
reader, poet uses the visualization of the seasons and even makes them more sensual by replacing the seasons with so called emphatic images “stars rain sun moon”. This idea was developed by Theo Steinmann in his "Semantic Rhythm in 'Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town" when he said, “With each of the abstract terms the poet associates a natural phenomenon characterizing the particular season on the sensuous level of human experience so that one may stand emblematically for the other: sun -summer; moon
Literary Analysis of “anyone lived in a pretty how town” The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” written by e.e. Cummings is based on a man “anyone” who lived in a pretty town. Anyone lives his life day by day and sings about the things that he has never done and dances about the things that he has. His town is described as not very friendly, the citizens are wrapped up in their own lives and they are too concerned with raising boring children who are all alike. The children believe that a woman
safety and life for that person even though they may not give you their love. The Great Gatsby shows how love can be unfair and dishonest. Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” shows how love can be honest and fair. Both selections show how love can either be honest or not taken seriously. F.Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and E.e. Cummings, author of Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” convey a similar theme of love through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism. The Great Gatsby’s
Love is pure. The Great Gatsby and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” both implement the message that love is for everyone. In The Great Gatsby, is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. In “anyone who lived in a pretty how town” is about the loss and lack of identity
F. Scott Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings, whose engrossment in the insincere life of others inspired and influenced them to write on it. F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and motifs. Both selections are about the insincerity and carelessness
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about a love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Gatsby wants Daisy all to himself but she is married to her careless husband Tom. E.E Cummings’ poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is about how any and everyone just hopes for better in their town. Both the novel and poem convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, diction, symbolism and motifs. Both selections are about the American dream and reveal that in order to
E.E. Cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town" I first read this poem and I thought of love, two people in love. Anyone and noone are in love and that is what matters to them, to be in love with each other and with life. It involves the day, the night, and how the weather changes. The seasons revolve and the children grow up to become adults. As I read the poem I realized there were three sections to it. Which consist of anyone and noone, "women and men" in line four, and the children. The first
Both “anyone lived in a little how town” and “I'm Nobody! Who are you?” are complex poems. Each of these poems have very different messages; the former relating to the poet as an individual and the latter being about the passing of time. They utilize wordplay and ambiguity as rhetorical techniques through which to convey their overall message. Each of these poems utilize similar structural and rhetorical techniques – creating characters out of pronouns - to convey their messages. Theme is
“Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” Complete Annotation The poem “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” is about a character named anyone. Anyone lives in a pretty how town. He sings about his dreams that he wants to accomplish, but he never will accomplish. The town does not care about his dreams. They are too self centered, and they do not realize they are stuck in a repeating cycle. They know he will not accomplish his dreams because when he gets older reality will destroy his dreams. Time passes
itself. In 1940, Cummings wrote “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” a bleak depiction of how the mentality present in a small town isolates people from society for the entirety of their lives, from childhood to adulthood throughout all the 4 seasons. The protagonist in the poem, “anyone,” represents society as a whole, and is the only one who is able to love and live a fulfilling life, allowing him to fall in love with “noone”. “Anyone”
Love, and Things That Don't Matter F.Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby” and e. e. Cummings, author of “anyone lived in a little how town” convey similar themes of love and carelessness through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction. Both selections reveal that love can lead to both good and bad results in the future. In ‘The Great Gatsby”, the author uses a lot of imagery throughout the book in order to create a more vivid representation of love and carelessness. At the end of the
words, and unusual syntax to alert readers to many societal changes. In the poem, “in Just-,” readers are exposed to spring as seen through the eyes of a child. In contrast, readers witness how an ideal suburban town can become detached from interpersonal connections in the poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Upon first glance, the unconventional word
personal ideas of love and individualism over society and what’s considered normal. The relationships between those contrasting themes are here exemplified in three of his poems, with the main one being the poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. In E.E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town, he uses contrast, style, and tone to convey his theme to the reader. The first compelling poetic device Cummings uses is contrast to emphasize the meaning of the poem. He organizes the stanzas into groups
which was published in 1864. Notes from the Underground, had a great influence in the 20th century; the novel takes a man’s inability to communicate with society and uses it to teach readers about the importance of other humans in our daily lives and how that affects the way we think, live, and learn. Although the narrator has alienated himself from society, Dostoyevsky uses his knowledge of diction, style, grammar, and many other literary devices to show the reader that the narrator is lacking the
Before Pickard went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car. Now, after the war, nothing was changed in the town except the young girls. Their hair all done, the missing boot scuffs and a clean trim; they were grown up. But they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Pickard did not feel the energy or the courage to be a part of. He liked to look at them, though. There were so many good-looking young girls. When he went
everything they once believed true. Many of the social normalities these people had before they left for war, were abandoned. People exchanged their proper ways for more relaxed ideals. In this new society people were more able to express themselves, how they wanted to. One of the best shifts that happened in this new era was with women. Before World War One, women were considered submissive to men. They did not have duties outside of daily house work, and children. However after World War One people