Ee Cummings Literary Devices
Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem, but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem.
E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone.
The weary tone gives the impression that the narrator has been through many difficult situations and made hard decisions. The tone makes it seem that the narrator has gained quite a bit of experience by living through much of life. With "they sowed their isn't they reaped their same reaped their …show more content…
Anyone and no one are buried together, their physical bodies returning to dust ("earth by april"), but they become part of a shared dream ("dream their sleep"). The townspeople take no notice of this and continue their fruitless cycle. When they die, they achieve nothing ("reaped their sowing", when they sowed nothing in the second stanza). They merely become dust and disappear forever ("went their came"), as opposed to anyone and no one
, who achieve immortality, much like the eternal sun, moon, and stars. There are very few breaks in the poem: two periods, each occurring before "Women and men". This is a disruption in the poem, signifying the townspeople as a fault in the order of the universe, and anyone and no one being involved in it, blending in. The poem does not begin with a capitalized letter, nor does not end with a period, showing that the cycle begins where it left off.
E. E. Cummings shows us how society is not willing to acknowledge differences. He wants people to question traditions, and to understand them for their true intent. He is challenging anyone, literally, to push the boundaries of success so that we may achieve our …show more content…
His use of symbolism is amazing, as is his metaphorical sense of society as a whole and how mechanical it is. This poem to me shows that we are all no one
, we have all been or will be the forgetful children, and we are all or will be the women and men. We all grow up, and "down we forget." We live, we love and eventually, we die.
One might ask, how can someone be someone's no one... if they are everything to them. But that's the beauty of it, the person is no one to so many, but to that one person in life, just "anyone" to everyone else, is everything. cummings's poem is a punning paradox (with up so floating many bells down). it takes only a small reversal of perspective, and language, to get a truer view of life (he sang his didn't, he danced his did). The everyones and someones think they have it right (they did their dance) because they are like everyone else in the town which makes them someone important (reaped their same).
But anyone and no
E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone.
The weary tone gives the impression that the narrator has been through many difficult situations and made hard decisions. The tone makes it seem that the narrator has gained quite a bit of experience by living through much of life. With "they sowed their isn't they reaped their same reaped their …show more content…
Anyone and no one are buried together, their physical bodies returning to dust ("earth by april"), but they become part of a shared dream ("dream their sleep"). The townspeople take no notice of this and continue their fruitless cycle. When they die, they achieve nothing ("reaped their sowing", when they sowed nothing in the second stanza). They merely become dust and disappear forever ("went their came"), as opposed to anyone and no one
, who achieve immortality, much like the eternal sun, moon, and stars. There are very few breaks in the poem: two periods, each occurring before "Women and men". This is a disruption in the poem, signifying the townspeople as a fault in the order of the universe, and anyone and no one being involved in it, blending in. The poem does not begin with a capitalized letter, nor does not end with a period, showing that the cycle begins where it left off.
E. E. Cummings shows us how society is not willing to acknowledge differences. He wants people to question traditions, and to understand them for their true intent. He is challenging anyone, literally, to push the boundaries of success so that we may achieve our …show more content…
His use of symbolism is amazing, as is his metaphorical sense of society as a whole and how mechanical it is. This poem to me shows that we are all no one
, we have all been or will be the forgetful children, and we are all or will be the women and men. We all grow up, and "down we forget." We live, we love and eventually, we die.
One might ask, how can someone be someone's no one... if they are everything to them. But that's the beauty of it, the person is no one to so many, but to that one person in life, just "anyone" to everyone else, is everything. cummings's poem is a punning paradox (with up so floating many bells down). it takes only a small reversal of perspective, and language, to get a truer view of life (he sang his didn't, he danced his did). The everyones and someones think they have it right (they did their dance) because they are like everyone else in the town which makes them someone important (reaped their same).
But anyone and no