Peters,+Zachary

=__E.E. Cummings__=



"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader"- Randall Jarrell, //The Third book of Criticism//
The two stylistic features that one should know about can all be found in the often used notation of the author’s name: e.e. cummings. No capital letters and punctuation. These are two key elements to Cumming’s work that need to be understood before reading his poetry.

Below are two of his poems annotated with links to more information. Please follow the links for more information.


 * but if a living dance upon dead minds**

but if a living dance upon dead minds why, it is love;but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear moon's utmost magic or stones speak or one name control more incredible splendor than our merely universe,love's also there: and being here imprisoned,tortured here love everywhere exploding maims and blinds (but surely does not forget,perish,sleep cannot be photographed,measured;disdains the trvial labelling of punctual brains... -who wields a poem huger than the grave? from only whom shall time no refuge keep through all the weird worlds must be opened? ) Love


 * a man who had fallen amoung theives**

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round [|jeer] for a hat

fate per a somewhat more than less emancipated evening had in return for consciousness endowed him with a changeless grin

whereon a dozen staunch and Meal citizens did graze at pause then fired by hypercivic zeal sought newer pastures or because

swaddled with a frozen brook of pinkest vomit out of eyes which noticed nobody he looked as if he did not care to rise

one hand did nothing on the vest its wideflung friend clenched weakly dirt while the mute trouserfly confessed a button solemnly inert.

Brushing from whom the stiffened puke i put him all into my arms and staggered banged with terror through a million billion trillion stars