E&e cummings poems analysis
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The world informed by the horrors of World War I was also a world which influenced artists of the 20th century to push hard against literary conventions and traditions.
As a result, the 1920s saw not just the rise of hemlines and skyscrapers, but also boundaries of poetry.
E&e cummings poems analysis
Several poets were at the vanguard of this revolution, including T. S. Eliot one side of the spectrum of experimentation and Robert Frost who towered over the opposite side. Somewhere between them stands e.e. Cummings who embraced Frost’s simplicity as the key to revealing depth.
“my sweet old etcetera” is not an exhibition of the more avant-garde techniques of playing with structure and punctuation to be found in Cummings’ canon, but it is more than experimental enough to be a useful counterpoint to the poem’s ironic content.
In fact, the rather subtle sense of anger