E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. On that crisp fall day, America received her voice; a unique voice amongst the multitude that would sing out in defense of individuality, and cry out against conformity. He followed in the footsteps of a Great American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like Emerson, Cummings was also a transcendentalist who believed that the “imaginative faculty in man can perceive the natural world directly”. Using odd forms, distortions of syntax, and obvious nonconformity, his writings were almost romantic describing things such as love and youth.
Cummings often used absurdities in his writing to grasp the rea
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