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Noise Number 1,                  EE Cummings, 1919, oil on canvas

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Noise Number 1,                  EE Cummings, 1919, oil on canvas

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love is more thicker than forget

more thinner than recall

more seldom than a wave is wet

more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly

and less it shall unbe

than all the sea which only

is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win

less never than alive

less bigger than the least begin

less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly

and more it cannot die

than all the sky which only

is higher than the sky

ee cummings, 1926

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Self Portrait with Sketch Pad, EE cummings, 1939, oil on canvas

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Self Portrait with Sketch Pad, EE cummings, 1939, oil on canvas

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WATCH ME--ee cummings reads his poem "I carry you in my heart" followed by a thoughtful analysis. This will help you appreciate the visual complexity of his poetry and use of non-conventional punctuation and layout.  8 minutes

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View Through a Forest Road, ee cummings, 1945

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View Through a Forest Road, ee cummings, 1945

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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
ee cummings, 1931

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During World War one, Cummings was arrested for suspicion of espionage. The French put him in prison for three months because of his open anti-war opinions, his lack of hatred towards the Germans, and his friendship with William Slater Brown, who was a suspected spy. His time in prison helped him write The Enormous Room, a fictitious account on his time spent there.
-D.P.

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Evening at Sunset, 1950,   ee cummings, watercolor

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Evening at Sunset, 1950,   ee cummings, watercolor

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somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond

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somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond

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WATCH ME

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ee cummings reads "Somewhere I have never travelled..."

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my father moved through dooms of love, ee cummings

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my father moved through dooms of love, ee cummings

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listen to the recitation--be sure to read the description too.

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"my father moved through dooms of love" by E E Cummings (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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surf: north africa1933

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Forth-Dimension Abstraction, ee cummings, not dated

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Forth-Dimension Abstraction, ee cummings, not dated

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What were some of EE Cummings influences?

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Fun!  Write a poem in the style of ee cummings and use this visual poetry generator to create concrete poetry with it.  Don't forget to save it, print it, and put it in your journal.

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Fun!  Write a poem in the style of ee cummings and use this visual poetry generator to create concrete poetry with it.  Don't forget to save it, print it, and put it in your journal.

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Create visual word mosaics with your poetry.

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E.E. Cummings painted in many different styles such as landscapes, abstracts, and portraits. I like the way he paints his abstract paintings because they are a puzzle just like his poetry. Instead of just writing the words on a piece of paper, Cummings tries to tell a story with his drawings as well. Below is one of my favorite works of art by him.

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Find a good definition of concrete poetry.

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In what ways is Cummings' poetic style unconventional?

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Which poem of EE Cummings is your favorite and why?

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Which poem of EE Cummings is your favorite and why?

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"nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets."

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"my father moved through dooms of love" -LB

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"my father moved through dooms of love" -LB

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according to https://learnodo-newtonic.com/ee-cummings-facts
In 1927, Cummings’s parents were involved in a car accident during which his father lost his life and his mother was severely injured. Cummings paid homage to his father in the poem “my father moved through dooms of love”. The death of his father had profound effect on Cummings and this is reflected in his work, the focus of which shifted to deeper aspects of life. The incident is considered the beginning of a new phase in his career as an artist and writer.

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in all of his poems, cummings uses punctuation and capitalization to bring a hidden meaning into his poems. He also interrupts some of his sentences and forms completely new thoughts. some say he uses a bit of sarcasm in his poems also. I think he does this so that people who read his poems will have to stop and think about what exactly he is trying to say instead of rushing through the poem and not getting anything out of it.

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EE Cummings was a pioneer in the world of poetry during the early 1900's. He was eccentric and very innovative with his writing style. He placed words in strange assortment and used parentheses to convey imagery. Cummings also defied any and every linguistic or grammatical rule that stood in his way. He rarely used capital letters or conventional punctuation

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"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
- E E Cummings
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- E E Cummings

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Imagery in "Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond"

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Imagery in "Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond"

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According to
https://www.enotes.com/topics/traveled-beyond/in-depth#in-depth-style
There are two main types of imagery systems in this poem, which are: human anatomy and nature. The poem’s focus on anatomical imagery is apparent from the second line, when the speaker discusses his beloved’s eyes. These eyes have such a power over the speaker that one look can easily “unclose” him. Likewise, a “frail gesture” made by the woman evokes powerful feelings from the speaker. The poem ends with anatomical imagery, as the speaker discusses “the voice of your eyes” and “small hands” that rival the manipulative powers of nature.

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Edward Estlin "E. E. " Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

Born: October 14, 1894, Cambridge

Died: September 3, 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA

Cause of Death: Cerebral hemorrhage

Nationality: American

Height: 5'8" (1.73m)

Spouse: Anne Minnerly Barton (m. 1929-1932), Elaine Orr Thayer (m. 1924-1924)

Parents: Edward Cummings, Rebecca Haswell Clarke

Children: Nancy Thayer Andrews

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e e cummings adopted Transcendentalist beliefs from his father, and his poems were likely inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. cummings always experimented with his poems, similarly to other Transcendentalist poets, and he often tackled the same topics that many Transcendentalists did as well. These topics were often ones which seemed unexplainable by logic alone, such as love, nature, and more.

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Her eyes lit by fire,

-Red and angry.

Her lips indented by her teeth,

-White and chapped.

Her breaths held on a leash,

-Ready to fight.

Her bright cheeks,

-Ran down by tear streaks.

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E.E. Cummings