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  • Definition Of Poetry
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    According to Webster's Dictionary, poetry is defined as "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm". While this is the technical definition of poetry many writers attempted to further describe what poetry is. There are many contradicting views and no one can agree what is the essence of poetry. Some poets think that poetry is the expression of emotions and r...
  • E.E. Cummings
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    E.E. Cummings: A Man of Poetry The background of E.E. Cummings, who was a distinctive, American poet, greatly influenced his literary achievements in poetry. This can be seen in the experiences of his early childhood. 'Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 14, 1894'; (Ulanov 565). He was born into wealthy and creative surroundings. 'Dr. Cummings was a woodsman, a photographer, an actor, a carpenter, an artist - and talented in all that he undertook. Mrs. Cummings ...
  • Apparent In Cummings Poems
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    A Painter as a Poet Tammie K. Hamming Period 2 " A painter as a Poet " visual aB strict symbolic in tense (an i mated) spo n tan ious Inventive ill u (s trative cOntemP or a r y Each of these words could easily describe the fervent brushstrokes on a painters canvas. However, it is the passion of E.E. Cummings poetry that they are meant to express. The words and designs of his works embody the same breathless quality contained in modern art. It is no surprise that he was an open-minded critic, at...
  • Aggregate Of Mr Cummings Poems
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    On Tulips & Chimneys, which contains "Thy fingers make early flowers of,"in Just-,"O sweet spontaneous", and "Buffalo Bill's" Slater Brown (1924) Modern art gets much less explanation than it deserves. The artist is too busy pioneering, the intransigent critic too busy fighting his own battles. Nor does any explanation come from the critics of the older school. They have a fear of tasting anything which they cannot recognize at a glance, they refuse to understand anything which is disturbingly n...
  • Poetry As A Foreign Language
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    Section Contents Section Contents Edward Estlin Cummings teaching Poetry as a foreign language: a close reading of "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond teaching poetry as a foreign language how teaching english as a foreign language can help native speakers understand poetry the literal and the figurative the two great classes of meaning soul and breath the universal motif ambiguity destructive and constructive meaning somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond open and close wh...

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