21. Island Of Freedom - Edward Estlin Cummings A brief biographical note on cummings, with links to further resources. http://www.island-of-freedom.com/CUMMINGS.HTM

Island of Freedom Homer Sophocles Virgil Ovid ... Auden where climbing was and bright/ is darkness and to fall/ (now wrong's the only right/ since brave are cowards all) e.e. cummings Home Theologians Philosophers Poets ... Siddhartha edward estlin cummings PLACES: An Unofficial E. E. Cummings Starting Point E. E. Cummings e. e. cummings Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet, playwright, prose writer, and painter whose vital transcendental vision found embodiment in a startling array of innovative artistic devices, where typography, punctuation, grammar, syntax, diction, imagery, and rhythm were often pushed to their limits. After completing his B.A. and M.A. in English and classics at Harvard University by 1916, Cummings volunteered for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France during World War I. He wrote letters back home criticizing the conduct of the war, and the nervous French censors had him arrested and sent (1917) to a detention center, where he remained for three months before being released. This harrowing prison-camp experience became the basis of his first published book, The Enormous Room (1922), one of the best American works to come out of that war. Written as a journal of his prison stay, it is heightened by an already experimental prose style and a hatred of bureaucracy that could treat helpless and innocent civilians so cruelly. On his return from France to the United States, refusing his family's wish that he seek a commission, Cummings was drafted into the army until shortly after the 1918 Armistice. He depicts military life satirically in such poems as

22. E E Cummings @Web English Teacher e e cummings Poems and lesson ideas. Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems Using concrete poetry, students explore the relationship http://www.webenglishteacher.com/cummings.html

from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature e e cummings Poems and lesson ideas Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems Using concrete poetry, students explore the relationship between the structure and meaning of a poem. This lesson plan uses "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" as a model and includes links to texts of poems and suggestions for assessment. E. E. Cummings A brief biography and links to some poems. e e cummings Links to 151 poems. The Enormous Room Text of cummings' book based on his experience in a French prison camp. Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip This lesson includes "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" as a model. Search WWW Search Web English Teacher About Web English Teacher Site Map Accolades Contact Us Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. Permission to link is granted to any educational site. This page updated March 18, 2007

23. [minstrels] Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind -- E. E. Cummings cummings name is often styled e.e. cummings in the mistaken belief that the poet legally changed his name to lowercase letters only. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/57.html

[57] pity this busy monster, manunkind Title : pity this busy monster, manunkind Poet : E. E. Cummings Date : 7 Apr 1999 pity this busy monst... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq pity this busy monster, manunkind pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness - electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born - pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if - listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go E. E. Cummings http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/eecumfst.htm From: this poem is quite complex cavol@ lightarian@ From: i think this cummings expresses his fellings about how he thinks that it's so not fair to nature because of all the things human done that has destroyed the ecosystem and stuff. He's maybe confessing the sins of man or something. That's what i think anyways. South Woods M.S. NY

24. PAL: E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) A fulltime artist, a novelist, a playwright, an nonlecturer, E. E. cummings was, most importantly, a poet. His poetry is known for its eccentric style, http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/cummings.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 7: E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) The Paintings of EEC EEC Society Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: The Academy of American Poets - EEC A full-time artist, a novelist, a playwright, an "nonlecturer," E. E. Cummings was, most importantly, a poet. His poetry is known for its eccentric style, its unusual typography and spellings, and deliberate misuse of grammatical structure. He experimented with the "rhythm of the phrase" discovered by Walt Whitman and called the "variable foot" by poet William Carlos Williams. In many ways, Cummings is a traditional poet, especially in his love poems and his celebration of families, parents, children, values. His visual patterns of words are consistent with the movement toward "break up and restructuring" used as a revolt against realism in art and in writing. Primary Works The Enormous Room Tulips and Chimneys XLI Poems W ViVa Eimi no thanks Collected Poems 50 Poems 1 x 1 , 1944; and

25. 15541. Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin). The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 15541. cummings, EE (Edward Estlin). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. http://www.bartleby.com/66/41/15541.html

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26. BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) cummings 1894 1962. Extract from a Yale University programme 10 January 1955 BBC EE cummings talks about http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/cummingse1.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import url(/bbcfour/styles/bullet2.css); Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 26 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings 1894 - 1962 Extract from a Yale University programme 10 January 1955 BBC EE Cummings talks about what he thinks an artist is 2 min 1 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings American poet and painter A widely popular poet, Cummings used eccentric typography and phrasing in his work "to develop new means of expression". Read more About the BBC Help Advertise with us

27. E E Cummings - Buffalo Bill's e e cummings. Buffalo Bill s defunct who used to ride a watersmoothsilver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a http://www.boppin.com/cummings.html

e e cummings Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death Thank you, Norman Edward Pycock Back to Brian Nation's boppin a riff

28. E. E. Cummings E. E. cummings Edward Estlin cummings (October 14, 1894September 3, 1962) was one of America s leading 20th century poets. A prolific poet and painter, http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/eecummings.html

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30. 'E.E. Cummings: A Biography' (washingtonpost.com) E.E. cummings A Biography By Christopher SawyerLauçanno. Sourcebooks. 606 pp. $29.95. More than four decades after his death, Edward Estlin cummings http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34132-2004Oct14.html

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Columns Jonathan Yardley ... E-Mail This Article RSS News Feeds Top News Jonathan Yardley What is RSS? All RSS Feeds 'E.E. Cummings: A Biography' By Jonathan Yardley Sunday, October 17, 2004; Page BW02 E.E. CUMMINGS A Biography Add Jonathan Yardley to your personal home page Free E-mail Newsletters Washington Entertainment Guide See a Sample Sign Up Now Movies See a Sample Sign Up Now Travel See a Sample Sign Up Now See a Sample Sign Up Now Cummings was born in Massachusetts in 1894 and died at his family's farm in New Hampshire in 1962. He was (like Frost) New England Yankee to the core. Both his parents' families had settled in the colonies long before the Revolution, Harvard was the family school, and Cummings was immersed in and faithful to Yankee tradition, as his poetry ("the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls") often reminds us. His father, a sociology instructor at Harvard who went on to become a prominent Unitarian minister in Cambridge, was a formidable presence whose "controlling behavior" made his only son uncomfortable but who inspired, at his death, what may be his son's greatest poem. It begins: my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give

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32. Penn State S Electronic Classics Series EE Cummings Page Download the works of EE cummings in PDF from this page. http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/eecummings.htm

33. E.e. Cummings the poetry of e.e. cummings 111 of my favorites. to be nobodybut-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else http://www.palace.net/~llama/poetry/cummings.html

the poetry of e.e. cummings 111 of my favorites "to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting" ee cummings edward estlin cummings (1894-1962) is one of my major poet-deities. he was a painter as well as a poet (he really got serious about it after seeing the surrealist/dadaist/weird-as-shit stuff at the Armory show in 1913, while he was at harvard), and because he was concerned with appearances and meanings combined, he played cool tricks with typography. unfortunately, people get caught up in his use of lowercase (and the man *was* known to use capitals, dammit) and miss out on the lyrical beauty and/or scathing satire found in his work. he wrote truly amazing stuff. check out his introductions to the poetry volumes is 5 and New Poems. NOTE: deb martinson

34. E. E. Cummings Essay Excerpt from A Foreword to Krazy from A MISCELLANY REVISED by E. E. cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, is used with the permission of Liveright http://www.krazy.com/cummings.htm

@import "style.css"; This essay was originally published as the prelude to the 1946 Henry Holt collection of Krazy Kat strips, and has been reprinted numerous times. See the bibliography for details. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama,born of the immemorial adage love will find a way . This frank frenzy (encouraged by a strictly irrational landscape in perpetual metamorphosis) generates three protagonists and a plot. Two of the protagonists are easily recognized as a cynical brick-throwing mouse and a sentimental policeman-dog. The third protagonist whose ambiguous gender doesn't disguise the good news that here comes our heroine may be described as a humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat&qher in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse. Ignatz Mouse and Offissa Pupp are opposite sides of the same coin. Is Offissa Pupp kind? Only in so far as Ignatz Mouse is cruel. If you're a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society's socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But if whisper it you're a 100% hidebound reactionary, the foot's in the other shoe. Ignatz Mouse then stands forth as a hero, pluckily struggling to keep the flag of free will flying; while Offissa Pupp assumes the monstrous mien of a Goliath, satanically bullying a tiny but indomitable David. Well, let's flip the coin so: and lo! Offissa Pupp comes up. That makes Ignatz Mouse "tails." Now we have a hero whose heart has gone to his head and a villain whose head has gone to his heart.

35. E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) Norman Friedman s E. E. cummings The Art of his Poetry (Johns Hopkins, 1960), Chapters Three and Four, deal clearly with his attitudes and his poetic http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cummings.html

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) Contributing Editor: Richard S. Kennedy Classroom Issues and Strategies Sometimes students are not aware that the visual presentation of a poem is part of its overall statement. In addition, they are sometimes puzzled by Cummings's unusual linguistic usage: the use of nouns as verbs, other locutions of nouns, etc. (e.g., the world is made of "roses & hello," "of so longs and ashes"). When I call students' attention to ways that words or presentations on the page actually function, this most often brings home an effect that may have been missed (e.g., in the poem "l(a" to point out the way the letter "L" and the word "one" are introduced, as the word "loneliness" and "a leaf falls" are intertwined). Sometimes I simply ask students for their individual responses and find that they really can feel the significance of an unusual expression. I have sometimes begun class by asking, "How does Cummings indicate in his poems that he is a painter as well as a poet?" Another simple approach is to ask, "How does Cummings seem different from any other poet whose work you have read?" I have also asked students at some point in a discussion, "Why are these linguistic presentations that Cummings makes classified as poems?" (This last, of course, is not asked about his sonnets or rhymed stanzaic verses.) Students vary in their responses, but most of them react deeply to his outlook on lifehis valuing of love, nature, human uniqueness. Fewer students appreciate his play with form. Almost all enjoy his humor and satire. Nearly every student joins him in his antiwar stance.

36. E. E. Cummings Quotes ee cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eecummin161807.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com e. e. cummings Quotes I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. e. e. cummings Vote on this Quote: Bad Good Topic: Nature Quotes Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: October 14 Date of Death: September 3 Nationality: American Amazon: e. e. cummings on Amazon Related Authors: Carl Sandburg Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell ... Bryant H. McGill More e. e. cummings Quotations: A politician is an arse... A wind has blown the... Always the beautiful answer... America makes prodigious mistakes... ... Unless you love someone... Quote Keywords: Amazing Blue Day Dream ... Yes Dictionary Links: Amazing Blue Day Dream ... RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

37. E E Cummings Quotes ee cummings quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes. Quotes from famous political leaders, authors, http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/e-e-cummings/1/index.html

i Topics Authors Proverbs ... Quote-A-Day Main Menu Topics Authors Proverbs Today in History ... Contact Sponsor 5 Quotes for 'e e cummings' in the Database. Pages: Author Letter "E" It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. Topic: Inspirational Source: None Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. Topic: Inspirational Source: None Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffin lid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. Imagine His surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? She was dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe." The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song. "Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb, "I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sister Would. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, with some shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others, we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold have no dread. Lift the sheet back in this way. Topic: Inspirational Source: None The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

38. E.e. Cummings E.E. cummings is also known for his creative use of language, punctuation, and form. His stanzas often flow in odd meters or run in quick bursts, http://deadparrot.home.pipeline.com/poetry/eec/

e.e. cummings Edward Estlin Cummings is one of my favorite poets for many reasons. He is best known for his use of lowercase letters where capitals are expected and particularly of his use of the lower case "i" when discussing himself. Some say that this represents himself as one who stands away from the crowd and looks into his soul as a casual bystander. E.E. Cummings is also known for his creative use of language, punctuation, and form. His stanzas often flow in odd meters or run in quick bursts, full of emotional observation. Sometimes Cummings will even paint with words in such a way that the poem can only be appreciated by looking at its placement on the page. Here are some of my favorite of his poems. Poems death(having lost)put on his universe hate blows a bubble of despair into Humanity i love you i like my body ... Back to poetry page. The author: hapgood@pipeline.com ISP: http://www.mindspring.com Last updated on: 12-30-98 Created with Corel WordPerfect Suite 8

39. Since Feeling Is First e.e. cummings since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/poem162.html

[previous] [next] [more by this author] [home] since feeling is first e.e. cummings since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry your eyelids' flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis [previous] [next] [more by this author] [home]

40. E.E. Cummings And Gertrude Stein E. E. cummings, enamored of the Imagists while at Harvard in the early 1910s, later said he should have lived in China where a poet is also a painter. http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/mod11.htm

E.E. CUMMINGS E. E. Cummings, enamored of the Imagists while at Harvard in the early 1910s, later said he should have "lived in China where a poet is also a painter." E. E. Cummings. "Hokku." Harvard Monthly . Cambridge, April 1916. E. E. Cummings "Mt. Chocorua." Oil on canvas. Ca. 1938. Cummings always painted with the bright colors of Japanese prints. His pen-and-ink drawings, many of which appeared in The Dial , suggest Chinese calligraphy. GERTRUDE STEIN Although modern art replaced her Japanese prints, Stein remained interested in the links between Eastern and Western cultures. She said, perhaps with some reference to her own work, of Picasso's calligraphic paintings that "Oriental people, the people of America and the people of Spain have never, really never forgotten that it is not necessary to use letters in order to be able to write." Jo Davidson. "Gertrude Stein." Bronze. Paris, 1923. In Stanzas in Meditation , Stein experimented with Buddhist philosophy. Davidson's sculpture of Stein makes intentional reference to the Buddha's pose. POSTSCRIPT As the high modernist period came to a close during the 1930s, the next generation of American writers focussed not on the classical epochs of Chinese and Japanese arts and letters but on contemporary views of the peasant class. Pearl Buck, the daughter of China missionaries, portrayed "natural" Chinese characters in her best-selling

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