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E. E. Cummings' "Advice", 2007.
An analysis of the persuasive technique of E. E. Cummings' "A Poet's Advice to Students".
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper discusses how E. E. Cummings, in his essay "A Poet's Advice to Students", advises that the best way to write poetry is to be a poet, and how his most persuasive explanation of what it is to be a poet is his explanation itself. The paper looks at how the perpetual enactment of Cummings' own demonstration of 'pistis' utilizes complex rhetorical strategies, which are artfully veiled by simple words and appealing rhythm to make his 'feeling' accessible to the reader. The paper asserts that, while Cummings' words are characteristically his own, their seeming simplicity echoes Aristotle's observation that the most persuasive art is the appearance of artlessness.
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"The title functions to both introduce the ethos, or character, of the speaker and establish the kairos, or occasion, of the text's reception. Ethos refers specifically to the character of the speaker as presented in the text, intended to establish the trustworthiness of the argument's presenter. Here, the title positions the speaker as a 'poet', who is therefore qualified to offer the instruction to follow. By prefacing the text as the 'advice' of an established poet to 'students', the title also serves to construct its own kairos by positioning the reader as one who may be educated by that which is explained. Thus, the title itself performs the rhetorical function of establishing the speaker's trustworthiness while simultaneously engendering receptiveness in the reader. "
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E. E. Cummings, 2002.
An analysis of the literary style of the author E. E. Cummings.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at the form and function of E. E. Cummings's work in relation to his symbolic message, unique visual writing style, and suggestions on interpretations.
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E. E. Cummings: Conformist, (not) Rebel., 2002.
A look at the life and work of poet ee Cummings.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of E.E. Cummings. The major theme in his poetry is romantic love, he was not a rebel of modern poetry; he was a conformist.
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Donne, Cummings and Yevtushenko, 2002.
Analyzes the poem ?People? by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and compares it to works by John Donne and E.E. Cummings.
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper shows the poem ?People? by Yevgeny Yevtushenko as an insightful and thought-provoking discussion about mankind in general as well as the individual man. The paper argues that because the poem glorifies people and reminds us to look for good in others, we could learn a great deal about being more considerate of people?s thoughts and feelings by incorporating the poem into our lives. The paper compares "People" to poems by John Donne (?Meditation XVII?) and E.E. Cummings (?anyone lied in a pretty how town?), comparisons which intensify the poem?s theme of brotherhood.
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"The theme of brotherhood is strong in Yevtushenko?s ?People,? appealing to our more philanthropical emotions. In a sense, the poem echoes John Donne?s ?Meditation XVII? from which the following well-known quotations come: ?No man is an island? (827) and ?. . .never send to know for whom the bell tolls? it tolls for thee? (828). Both Donne?s ?Meditation? and Yevtushenko?s poem express the idea that the loss of any individual in society is a loss of part of ourselves because we all share a bond with mankind, whether it be a bond of general humanitarianism or a more direct connection of knowing ?brother of a brother? or ?friend of friends? (328). When someone dies, he takes with him his private world of memories, ?his first snow and kiss and fight? (328), which are a part of the person with whom he experienced these events as well. Therefore, a piece of the secret world of the living joins that of the dead, never to be rekindled in conversation, only in one-sided reminiscing."
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Childhoods in Poetry, 2005.
This paper compares the writing styles of E.E. Cummings in his poem "in Just" and Dylan Thomas' poem "Fern Hill".
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that, unlike poets of their period who wrote mainly about war and people suffering, E.E. Cummings "in Just" and Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" discuss their childhoods. The author points out that, although both Cummings and Thomas use a lot of visual images to trigger the reader's senses, thus making the poem more believable to the reader, Cummings also uses a lot of coinage such as "mudluscious", which makes the reader think of what the world would be like if it were covered in mud. The paper relates that Dylan Thomas in "Fern Hill" uses a formal, complicated words, in long stanzas, because he is not writing about a child or for a child but rather in an adult's perspective for an adult; E.E. Cummings "in Just" uses informal diction because he is writing in a child's perspective.
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"E.E. Cummings writes about childhood in a third person narrative. It is as if he is outside of the mainstream. Cummings is on the outside trying to look into what it is like to be a child. This is why he writes in a child's perspective. People are given a chance to start fresh. Everything becomes new once again. People's spirits are awakened and it is as if they have been given a second chance at happiness, and carefree. Dylan Thomas has a different approach to writing about childhood than Cummings. Thomas writes in a first person narrative. He does not write as a child's perspectives, instead, he writes as an adult, in an adult's perspective. He is looking back on his childhood, as an adult."
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Disillusionment of Humankind, 2004.
The theme of human suffering in the midst of progress in the works of Mark Rothko and e. e. cummings.
1,348 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses how the theme of disillusionment and disorientation in American society prevailed in the works of American artists, particularly in the realm of visual arts and literature. This paper studies and analyzes, comparatively, the work of the poet, e. e. cummings, and the painter, Mark Rothko. It explains through their works how individualism and expressionism became the ideologies that helped illustrate the state of human suffering in the painting, ?Gethsemane?, by Mark Rothko, and the poem, ?pity this monster, manunkind?, by e. e. cummings.
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"At the turn of the 20th century, American culture has flourished significantly, especially with the emergence of important fields of discipline that evoke individualism and free expression in works of art created by American artists. This phenomenon is especially evident after World War II, where the conflict among the world?s nations had affected the psyche of American society and nation, one of the major players in the recently concluded war. After WWII, different lifestyles have emerged in the American society: consumerism, urbanism, and hedonism. These lifestyles gave birth to individualism and freedom of expression among people, especially now that the mass media made it possible for the society to exchange and extend messages and information to people located in different areas. However, despite these developments in American life, people have initially become disillusioned and disoriented about life, mainly due to the adverse effects of the war, which resulted to millions of deaths of people?s lives and destruction of the physical environment of societies from all over the world."
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E.E. Cummings, 2002.
Examines the opinions of poet E.E. Cummings on technology and man's alienation from nature.
664 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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Poet E.E. Cummings considered any force that threatened what is natural and instinctive to be an antagonist of life, an adversary that men must confront before they completely lost their ability to feel and respond as individuals. The paper shows that Cummings thought mankind obsessed with technological advances and flashy advertisements promising the American ideal that he renounced the natural condition by developing needs for unnecessary things. The paper examines Cummings' contempt for man's alienation from his true self in the poems "pity this busy monster, manunkind," and "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," which scorn what organized society has proudly developed.
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"Cummings further expressed his fear of the degradation of man's natural state three years later when he wrote "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," an Elizabethan sonnet that satirizes society's blind adherence to decorum and regulation. Here, Cummings demotes man from being a monster, a word that at least implies animalistic qualities, to being an unnatural unanimal. When such legalese as bargaining, striking, and signing on the dotted line is applied to creatures and events of nature, the effects are preposterous, and yet society accepts such irreverent behavior in man, once a natural creature. Despite the child-like language and nonsense comparisons in the poem that add a touch of innocence to the poem, Cummings? message is clear: nature is being ?separated from its most essential qualities?, left to exist ?simultaneously with his horror of a society seriously awry? (Marks 60)."
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Edward Estlin Cummings, 2003.
A review of the life and literary style of the novelist E. E. Cummings
2,583 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper is a biography of the life and career of Edward Estlin Cummings, the twentieth century poet, playwright, novelist and artist. It describes his life from his birth in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 through his childhood, education at Harvard and his experiences during World War I. It discusses how Cummings was a man of many talents-- a poet, a novelist and an artist and how he was also a voice, as all writers eventually become. It looks at how he stood for the freedom of the individual and how he expressed this through all of his works. It shows how in his poems he basically broke every law of grammatical structure known to language in and twisted the lyrical phrases around for the effect of both creativity and statement and in his art he did it by just the freedom and abstract design of his ingenuity transformed into what he painted.
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"Some of the rather influential voices that played a role in both Estlin?s writing and art forms included many modern, known people. Early in his career, Estlin looked to William Shakespeare to enlighten him on the art of developing sonnets. He admired Shakespeare?s ?intensity? to make art what it is. He took this intensity and incorporated it into and molded his sonnets after Shakespearian ideas, so to speak. These turned out to be some of the finest sonnets of our century. Estlin wrote them in a way as to ?celebrate love, savagely ridiculing human stupidity, and recording his pilgrimage to the transcendental? (Unger 433)."
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Love in Poetry, 2002.
An analysis of several poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay and E. E Cummings to show how each personifies love.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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By analyzing the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and E.E. Cummings, the author of this paper shows how each of the poets use different methods to personify their love for themselves, for others, for nature and even for poetry. The paper studies poems such as ?I Think I Should Have Loved you Presently" by Millay and "Spring" by Cummings to show the different styles.
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"Again, it is clear that love means many different things to many different people, including the two highlighted poets ? E. E. Cummings and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Both poets use metaphors, imagery and descriptive language to express their feelings. The similarities end with the common literary devices; Cummings incorporates sensual images, the use of nature and emotions to proclaim his vulnerablity to love, as well as his lover. Millay, on the other side of the spectrum, never really connects words with her emotions, which makes it difficult to tell if she was speaking of love that she actually knew about, or perhaps she as just writing about a lover with whom she had shared a bed. Either way, both poets wanted to convey their thoughts on love, and these thoughts offer their readers windows into their souls, no matter how shallow or deep they might have been."
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"Business Elites & Urban Development" ( Scott Cummings ), 1997.
Reviews collection of essays questioning ability of private sector to transform cities effectively or humanely.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" In The Social Production of Urban Space Gottdiener argues that prevailing approaches to the study of urban areas have not adjusted to the emergence of a new model, the "polynucleated metropolitan region" (p. 7). It is Gottdiener's goal to produce a conceptual means of analyzing the production of space that is based on materialism. To this end he synthesizes various strands of marxian analysis to produce an analysis based on the notion that "spatial and social relations are dialectically related" (23). Employing this idea, Gottdiener analyzes the present version of settlement space of which the unique feature is socio-spatial organization restructured by "the combined efforts of Late Capitalist social process and the spatial process of deconcentration" (p. 23). The essence of his critique is displayed very effectively in his analysis of metropolitan.."
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Everyone is anyone in a pretty how town, 2005.
Examines this poem by E.E. Cummings.
730 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper focuses on the literary devices E.E. Cummings utilizes in his poem, "Anyone lived in a pretty how town." It discusses repetition, diction, tone and other devices.
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"The poetry of E.E. Cummings has been featured throughout anthologies and textbooks for nearly one hundred years and is studied in classrooms for his innovative contribution to the world of poetry. His famous poem "Anyone lived in a pretty how town" illustrates his unique style through the literary devices he utilizes to express the universal theme underneath."
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The Circles of Life and Language, 2001.
An examination of the work of poet E.E. Cummings.
1,154 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper takes a look at how E.E. Cummings defied linguistic convention in his poetry, and how he imparted meaning to his poems that way. Includes an analysis of criticism of his work.
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"Renowned author and poet, E. E. Cummings, sought to take the use of language to a different extreme. By rearranging the traditional sentence structure and using nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives interchangeably, he was able to stir up the minds of the poetic society. His unique style of self-expression delighted the world by puzzling their minds and requiring readers to think ?outside the box.? "
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"Somewhere I Have Never Traveled", 2008.
An analysis of love as a transforming force in E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled".
1,062 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses how Cummings' poem, "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled", offers a compelling depiction of love as a total, transforming experience that has a life and death power over the person that is in love. It examines how the power of love, although immeasurable, is subtle as the power of nature and its influence on the lovers is overwhelming and how the poem thus translates the experience of love as one of the most crucial elements in the life of man. It also looks at how the significance of the poem resides primarily in the fact that it offers an insight into the way in which love acts as a commanding force on man, being part of the intimate rhythm of life, along with birth and death.
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"First of all, love is apt to transform the self and to penetrate into its innermost recesses. The woman lover to whom the poem is addressed as well as love itself are seen as agents or mysterious forces. The first line hints at a displacement of the self through a miraculous, previously unknown experience or sensation: "somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience". The idea of a journey into the unknown suggests the overpowering and new sensations brought by the intrusion of love into the poet's life. The next two lines emphasize powerful mastery of love, which is able to 'enclose' or entrap the poet's self: "in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, /or which i cannot touch because they are too near." "
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Paternal Influences in Poetry, 2005.
A paper on the works of e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas as they pertain to paternal influences
1,445 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper explores how cummings's and Thomas's \ relationships with their fathers influenced and inspired the writing of their poems. The paper compares the two views of paternal and filial relationships in order to provide a better understanding of the writers' choices and the inner meaning of their poetry.
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"Every writer has a different story, a unique path they have taken to become a writer or identify himself or herself as a writer. Many are born with God given talent while others struggle to learn the craft and swim with the sharks. It is this internal story, an array of experiences that makes the writer who they are and influences what and how they write. Early on, a writer recognizes the need to convey the story and a connection is born. This connection begins at a fundamental level of human sociology where the use of story is central. Howard Gardner reflects, "the ultimate impact of the writer depends most significantly on the particular story that he or she relates or embodies, and the receptions to that story on the part of the audiences" (14). By telling stories, allows for a certain level of openness or vulnerability on the part of the writer and makes them human."
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An Analysis of the Poem "Open Your Heart", 2001.
An analysis of the unique style of E.E. Cummings' work, with a detailed look at the poem "Open Your Heart".
605 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 21.95
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"One absolute beauty of spoken language is the flow of words. The sounds we are able to create - reverberating from our lips and tongues - can range anywhere from harmonious to harsh, and anywhere on the scale in-between. The uncrowned king of the sounds of a normally dissonant English language is E.E. Cummings, the brilliant 20th century poet who reinvented the rules of our language. He took his poetic license to heights never seen before, creating a melodious Cummings-speech that seems to flow off the tongue with incredible ease. Not only were Cummings? poems a joy to speak, they also covered a wide array of topics such as war, sex, and love. He was a master of the written word, using a wide variety of literary techniques to create enjoyment in the mouths of those who repeat his work."
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