e.e. cummings’ idiosyncrasy can largely be attributed to his situation in the modernist United States as he lived through World War I, World War II and the Great Depression. His works largely divulged a need for love within society to resolve its...

Modernist poet Edward Estlin Cummings (pen name e. e. cummings) uses diverse poetic structures in “Buffalo Bill’s” and “next to of course god america i” to draw the reader’s attention to the deeper meaning behind the words. Cummings experiments...

In the present day, poetry is often viewed as an inaccessible literary form – one that is made by and for those with a certain education and class background. T. S. Eliot commented that ‘it appears […] that poets in our civilisation […] must be ...

Throughout his illustrious career, E.E. Cummings produced some of the finest poems, plays, and paintings the world has ever seen. While many are masterpieces, few are as unique as his leaf-style poems. Perhaps his most famous – and arguably his...

Poetry has been used since its inception to send strong messages about current and historical issues, and these are often political in nature. In their poems “next to of course god america i” and “King Cotton, 1907” from “Scenes from a Documentary...

e.e. cummings’ idiosyncrasy can largely be attributed to his situation in the modernist United States as he lived through World War I, World War II and the Great Depression. His works largely divulged a need for love within society to resolve its...