EE Cummings is characteristically American
E.E. Cummings is characteristically AmericanE.E. Cummings is characteristically American. He is a famous, well known
American author. I found that his writing style is of a stereotypical American.
What is it to be stereotypically American? Well I found that one of the
main things is that you can say or write whatever you want and not feel
threatened about if what your saying is the right thing or not. Also a lot of
Americans will use sarcasm. Also you don’t have to come right out and say
whatever you mean. Some will talk about something completely different
then what they are really trying to say.
Cummings used a good amount of sarcasm in his writing. He sort of
made fun of things in his poems without coming out and saying it. He also
doesn’t just come right out and say what he means. I haven’t been able to
figure out many of his poems at all. The things he says just makes no sense at
all. Even after analyzing his work I haven’t been able to understand what he
means. I think that is one thing that most Americans do in one way or
another.
Cummings also wrote a large amount of poems that probably would
have offended people in one way or another. But freedom of speech is one
thing that all Americans have. We can say whatever we want and not have to
answer to anyone about it. If we were in another country that freedom of
speech isn’t allowed he possibly could have been thrown in jail for some of
his writings.
He was known for his lack of correct punctuation and capitalization in
his writings. Very often he would write his name as “e.e. cummings”, not
even capitalizing his own name. He basically had his own style of writing
things even though they were not written correctly. He never followed any
of the rules which might have been one of the reasons he was so remembered.
He was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. He...
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