EE Cummings
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Edward Setline Cummings has been considered the most influential American Poet. Not only is Cummings known for his unique ways in typography, language, punctuation, and use of capital letters, but it has been considered that he has actually began his own language called Cummings Ian. However, not only was Cummings an experienced writer but he was a well accomplished painter as well. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, Cummings grew up to attend and graduate from the University of Harvard. Working as an ambulance driver in WWI , Cummings was taken as a prisoner of war by the French. From this experience Cummings was able to derive many ideas for his future writings. His works are often considered some of the hardest to understand and are often compared to Eliot or Owen. The way in which Cummings arranges his capital letters as to emphasize importance of a word, his use of "self-spelling" and punctuation style are thought to be the result of both the Modernist era and suppressed anger as a result of his war experiences. The poem, "Anyone lived in a Pretty how town," is created to honor both the "power of love and a portrait loveless ness that indicts itself." (Lane) In the poem there are three groups of people in this town: the individuals, the collectives, and the children...