E.E. Cummings: he was symbol of modern pioneering spirit in modern American literary history.
1. Features of Cummings’ poems
● He hated science and technology which he though were inhumane and made it impossible for mankind to be human.
● 小米智能手环It was largely the prevailing rebellious spirit in the art and literature of the time that moved the dynamic personality of Cummings to change and asrt its individuality in his daring experiments.
● He values vitality, celebrates individualism and rejects groupiness. The usual themes on love and lust recur; an increasing number of nature poems reveal the poet’s fascination with a world, often a child’s world, born anew with its simplicity, innocence and spontaneous joy.
A leaf falls loneliness
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“l(a" is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his 1958 collection 95 Poems.
"l(a" is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. When the text is laid out horizontally, it reads as l(a leaf falls)oneliness —in other words, a leaf falls inrted within the first two letters of loneliness.
Robert DiYanni notes that the image of a single falling leaf is a common symbol for loneliness, and that this n of loneliness is enhanced by the structure of the poem. He writes that the fragmentation of the words "illustrates visually the paration that is the primary cau of loneliness". The fragmentation of the word loneliness is especially significant, since it highlights the fact that that word contains the word one. In addition, the isolated letter “l” can initially appear to be the numeral one. Robert Scott Root-Bernstein obrves that the overall shape of the poem rembles a 1.
Further suggestions for interpretation (collected at an English language-class in Germany in the 1980ies, all underlining the “loneliness”) may be:
• The “a” in the first line (as indefinite article) reprents singularity.
• The “le” in the cond line is the French equivalent to “the” (again “singularity”).
• If the first letters of line 6 to 9 are read downward, they read “soli”, which in Latin means “only”.
• iness" suggests the hissing sound while the leaf has fallen and people walk on it."
Q&A
1. What is the message conveyed by the poet? Discuss the features of imagism with reference to this poem.
The poem depicts the falling of a leaf and the poet wants to convey the n of loneliness.
2. Comment on the technique adopted by the poet.
As a painter and poet, e. e. Cummings brings the techniques of painting into poetry. In this poem, by his creative arrangement of words, we can e vividly the picture of a leave falling slowly, which Comment on the
technique adopted by the poet the theme of loneliness.
R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
The various letter orders of the word grasshopper and their lowerca and capitalization suggest the various impressions （from the first impression of a long jumping thing to the realization that it is a grasshopper ）
The u of hyphens（连字号）transmits this quence of impressions
The parenthes（括号） may have veral interpretations ：
1. isolating the speaker's reaction;
2. describing the speaker’s impression of the motion together with a scraping sound;
3. expressing simultaneity of the speaker’s perception and understanding of the changing form of the inct.
玉米的营养价值和功效>企业上市的好处学历顺序U of punctuations (标点符号）
1. Space itlf is a sort of punctuation
2. Exclamation（感叹号）：the colon（冒号） isolates “leaps” and the exclamation mark does suggest an exclamation（惊叹） in the middle of the leap. Colon (冒号）：两个头的人The final colon suggests that this motion is not the end, but that another jump will follow.
3. Period（句号): The period before "gRrEaPsPhOs" ems to make the anagram (变位词）a parenthesis within a parenthesis. It also shows a rather long stop of movement.
Q&A
1. 爱心的英文 How does the overall shape of the poem relate to its subject?
The shape of the poem looks like the letter of “Z”, indicating that the grasshopper is flying on a zigzagging(曲折的，成Z形的） flight. This well-designed shape vividly describes the movement of the grasshopper and thus gives a strong visual impact.
2. Why are the letters in the words jumbled?
The words’ rearrangement aims to contribute to the complexity of image, feeling and tone, so as to fill the brief instant between the first impression of a long jumping thing to the realization that it is a grasshopper.
The poet us letters almost as if they were brushstrokes in a painting. He jumbles letters and divides words to make a word-painting of an action.
