Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts which is where he grew up. He was the oldest child of Edward and Rebecca Cummings. His sister, Elizabeth, was born in 1901. E.E Cummings believe that his father, who was a sociology and political science major at Harvard, could accomplish anything that crossed his path. E.E. and his father shared a very close bond and they becomes each other's main support system. E.E.'s mother loved to read poetry to her children and teach them to love poetry. By the time E.E was three, he had written his first poem. Like his father, Cummings attended Harvard University. He graduated magna cum laude in 1915 with a bachelor of arts degree. During his college career, he continued to write poems which were often published in the Harvard Monthly. Later, the Harvard Advocate published his poems. In 1917, Eight Harvard Poets published his first collection of original poems. E.E. Cummings had two short marriages, the first to Elaine Orr and his second to Ann Minnerly Barton. Both of his marriages ended in divorce. On September 3, 1962, Cummings died from a stroke in New Hampshire. He was 67 years old.
Poetry: - his work was traditional; avant-garde style - wrote about love and nature - some poems are free verse - most poems are a sonnet - he wrote four plays in his lifetime
I Carry Your Heart With Me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Am Was am was. are leaves few this. is these a or scratchily over which of earth dragged once -ful leaf. & were who skies clutch an of poor how colding hereless. air theres what immense live without every dancing. singless on- ly a child's eyes float silently down more than two those that and that noing our gone snow gone yours mine . We're alive and shall be:cities may overflow(am was)assassinating whole grassblades,five ideas can swallow a man;three words im -prison a woman for all her now:but we've such freedom such intense digestion so much greenness only dying makes us grow
Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts which is where he grew up. He was the oldest child of Edward and Rebecca Cummings. His sister, Elizabeth, was born in 1901. E.E Cummings believe that his father, who was a sociology and political science major at Harvard, could accomplish anything that crossed his path. E.E. and his father shared a very close bond and they becomes each other's main support system. E.E.'s mother loved to read poetry to her children and teach them to love poetry. By the time E.E was three, he had written his first poem. Like his father, Cummings attended Harvard University. He graduated magna cum laude in 1915 with a bachelor of arts degree. During his college career, he continued to write poems which were often published in the Harvard Monthly. Later, the Harvard Advocate published his poems. In 1917, Eight Harvard Poets published his first collection of original poems. E.E. Cummings had two short marriages, the first to Elaine Orr and his second to Ann Minnerly Barton. Both of his marriages ended in divorce. On September 3, 1962, Cummings died from a stroke in New Hampshire. He was 67 years old.
Poetry:
- his work was traditional; avant-garde style
- wrote about love and nature
- some poems are free verse
- most poems are a sonnet
- he wrote four plays in his lifetime
I Carry Your Heart With Me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Am Was
am was. are leaves few this. is these a or
scratchily over which of earth dragged once
-ful leaf. & were who skies clutch an of poor
how colding hereless. air theres what immense
live without every dancing. singless on-
ly a child's eyes float silently down
more than two those that and that noing our
gone snow gone
yours mine
. We're
alive and shall be:cities may overflow(am
was)assassinating whole grassblades,five
ideas can swallow a man;three words im
-prison a woman for all her now:but we've
such freedom such intense digestion so
much greenness only dying makes us grow