E.E. Cummings-
Defender of Individualism and Non-Conformity
E. E. Cummings established himself as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, triumphing in hundreds of poems that struck his readers with a sense of awe and imagination. Cummings’ poems stand out among other poems as amazingly unique. Cummings was a staunch advocator of the individual, going against the grain of traditional, conformist poet. Cummings experimented with words on a page to make pictures and called it poetry; imaginably, it was controversially received at the time. But Cummings refused to mold into what every other poet was writing and always strived to stand out. He once wrote that, “so far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality…”
Cummings was still a staunch individual as he aged, but his work slowly started to resemble, (not imitate) New England Transcendentalism. Initially, Cummings was a......
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