Selected Poems of e.e.cummings:
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Edward Estrin Cummings (1894 ~ 1962)
American poet. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his father is a professor of science at Harvard University and the only Shinto priest. Cummings loved painting and literature since childhood.
I graduated from Harvard University in p>1915, and my graduation speech was entitled "New Art", which made a bold affirmation of
modern art, mainly cubism and futurism painting.
During the First World War, I participated in the ambulance team and worked in the French battlefield
and went to a concentration camp. Later, I wrote this experience in the book
Huge Room (1922) by surrealism.
After the war, he studied painting in Paris and new york and began to write poems. The first
collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys (1923), contains short songs and sonnets about love. Later, he published 12 poems, including Forty-one Poems (1925) and Selected Poems from 1922 to
1954 (1954). In 1957, he won the Bolingen Poetry < P > Song Award and the Boston Art Festival Poetry Award.
The titles of some of Cummings' poems are bizarre, their lines are uneven, and they are also ingenious in
grammar and diction. Words are split at will, and punctuation marks
are unusual. Besides emphasizing that there is generally no need to capitalize, even the names of I (I) and myself
are lowercase. He thinks that in the era of advanced science and technology, people < P > use their eyes to absorb external things more than their ears. Explaining why
words are used for stunts, he said, "My poems are aimed at roses and train heads."
under the peculiar formal shell, Cummings showed outstanding lyrical
ability and artistic sensitivity. His short poems, such as "It's Spring" and "This is a
garden with changeable colors", outline the innocent image of children and exude the fresh breath of spring
days; His love poems, such as A Moment After a Dream and Where I
have never been, contain sadness in tenderness; He misses his parents'
poem "If there is a heaven, my mother (alone) is there" and he is also sincere to people.
At the same time, he is also good at expressing his contempt and challenge to the ugly side of real life with bitter sarcasm. He called the brutal
struggle, emotional indifference and hypocrisy in modern capitalist society "inhuman" or
"non-world", and mocked and lashed it with a comic style.
Cummings adopted slang dialects in the streets and lanes in his later period, and the sociality of his poems
was also enhanced. But the subject matter is still not broad enough, and there is always a lack of ideological depth.
His poems have always received both praise and praise. Some people call him "the
clown on the typewriter keyboard" and accuse his poems of being a "fake experiment" that dismembers the poetic language; But
some literary critics think that he is "one of the most accomplished urban poets".