“Ride a watersmooth-silver/ stallion (4-5),” only a poem would allow somebody to imagine a dream like that. Poets have become very famous for the special talent inside, that make people think about everything by just reading a poem. One poet in particular is ee cummings. Cummings brings into the poems many special aspect of life that either there have been encounters with or others have been through. Cummings through many poems shows a different style of writing which makes the poems interesting to read. With the style of writing cummings shows themes such as nature, human spirit, death, and hatred.
Cummings broke into the world of poetry and broke every rule. Crossing boundaries no other poet had. “If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little- somebody who is obsessed by Making” (Berry 6). He had a very unique form that changed poetry forever. His mother encouraged him to use his mind and that’s where cumming’s skill comes from. By the end of college he was ready to leave Cambridge and go places:
…. the Cambridge ladies do not care, above
Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
sky lavender and cornerless, the
one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor
windows, smaller in proportion than the slits in a doll’s house (1-7).
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