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E.E. Cummings

Cummings was the first poet to produce poems out of his images, imagination, and nonconformity. He never followed rules and never followed trends. Cummings used his mind to draw images and poems into his poems. Cummings also had many influences that support all his poems. Most of his poems are either from experiences he has faced or those in his mind.
E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894 (Bernstein 709). As a minister, he had participated in the teacup society. College led Cummings to become a cubist painter, where he tried out free verse. This is where many experiments from his poems come from (Friedman 79).
Many influences came from being a nonconformist and an individualist. He would always go his own way. Cummings was influenced by syntactical terms from the late Gertrude Stein and imagistic experiments from Amy Lowell. Numerous ideas of poetry came from his painting. His mind would turn the work of art into words and put those words onto paper. As......


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