E.E+Cummings

E. E. Cummings Amazingly, E. E. Cumming’s parents were well known when he was younger. **His father was a professor at Harvard, which the younger Edward ended up graduating from in 1915**. But **his father was also minister at the local church. His mother was a stay-at-home-mom, which actually started to teach him about the love of writing.** She would have him and his siblings work on artistic things like poems and drawings. When he wasn’t away writing, he would be playing with his friends outside, such as the ever so famous, William James. Ironically enough, **Cummings first job out of college was an ambulance driver. This became his first real emotional grabber that really made him write.** But unfortunately, even **these poems couldn’t get him a publisher.** He did, though, **get the Dial Award for poetry in 1925 for his first poems in Tulips and Chimneys.** This had a **mixture of every emotion possible that he felt throughout, his Harvard experience, his love life, the scenes that he has seen, and even about the way of the environment around him.** But some of these poems were also about the negatives in his life, like **the drunks and prostitutes and the homeless on the streets, which is why the world and publishers did not yet accept his poems.** Throughout this problem, he still had time to have a family **his first wife, Elaine Orr, and his daughter, Nancy.** When Elaine left called for a divorce, not so long after, **he married Anne Barton and got another divorce. Because of these misfortunes he became amazingly depressed, which made his write sad poems. These poems contributed to Viva and No** **Thanks.** After this, he was **apart of the Dada and Surrealist movements where he was intensely inspired.** When he wrote Eimi, he was traveling in Soviet Russia, which contributed to his travel diary. When he got back from that, **he finally had his wife that lasted him for the rest of his lifetime. During this period of time, you could see that the way things were going on in his life affected his poems tremendously. Because of his happy relationship, his poems were more upbeat and happy, like in his three volumes of verse, 50 Poems.** When **Cummings finally brought Nancy back into his life, the play Santa Claus was brought on and became very famous over time**. Soon after his play became well known, **he started reading his poems in New York and was known to be one of the most popular performers, which made his other poems out to be worldwide.** But soon enough, in **1962 on September 3, E. E. Cummings died from a hemorrhage**. But even though he did go, his poems did not go with him. Every poet has an inspiration or an influence that makes him or her want to write. **While E. E. Cummings was in the Dada and Surrealist movements in the arts, he was brought upon new language and different expressions in poems. This was a big part in making his writing more in tune and intellectually better. But as for main human influences, he had none and wrote from his heart and he made his own things, rather then base it off other people.** This part about him is inspiring since he made poems basically out of nothing but feelings and emotions and what came off his head and the events that was going on in his life. Throughout E. E. Cummings life he made so many exceptional poems, but some of them were very interesting. Some of the things Cummings did with his poems were exceptional. Like the **poem !blac, he made the words falling down like a leaf.** And poems like **(Me up at does) or I carry your heart with me, have random parenthesis in them. People think that it might be two people talking to each other or his mind saying something, but no one is really sure.** But still till this day, personally his favorite poem of mine is **I carry your heart with me.** It is a remarkable romance poem that shows the side of how someone really feels when they’re in love and **it is also one of his most famous pieces.** E. E. Cumming’s poems are still trying to be broken down today even though they are truly remembered for what he really meant them to touch people with his own experiences.
 * Born on October 14, 1894**, Edward Estlin Cummings was bound to achieve greatness. Throughout his life he’s made poems that touched people’s hearts. The three major things in his life were his background and the major poems that he wrote and the influences that made him write so honorably that he has written. Each thing makes him a greater person then he already was set out to be.