1. by katie guilmette & olivia fondots
ee cummings
by katie guilmette
& olivia fondots

2. background poet and painter edward estin cummings
cambridge, massachusetts
october
edward cummings and rebecca haswell

3. background cambridge latin school harvard univeristy
graduated magna cum laude in greek and english
A.M. from harvard
started to become intrigued by the new movement of the arts in last year of college
began to experiment with free verse

4. his debut first works were published in Eight Harvard Poets 1917
next work was his autobiography of his experiences
concentration camp depot de triage during WWII
getting arrested on suspicion of espionage
“The Enormous Room”

5. placement of words and letters
cummonalities
structurally unique
placement of words and letters
double letters
parenthesis
hyphenation
capitalization
title is the first line

6. a painter too interested in modernism and cubism style art
celebrated works of ezra pound, igor stravinksy, and pablo picasso

7. “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”
ee cummings
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r      who
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8. “since feeling is first”
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady I swear by all the flowers. Don’t cry
the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
and death is no parenthesis

9. “Buffalo Bill’s” Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death

10. what they say… “radical and politically out of step”
had a “pacifist stance”
“spoiled little rich boy”
selfish man – he put poetry before everything else

11. We Disagree.. “radical and politically out of step”
had a “pacifist stance”

12. “miracles are to come. with you I leave a remembrance of miracles…”
-ee cummings