... fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. While these lives continued, Edward Estilin Cummings looked around the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts as his inspiration to be ... the public's perception of what's proper. In his first poem that addresses him hometown, "when i am in Boston," Cummings describes a scene while he notes, "when i am in Boston, i do not speak and i sit in the click of ivory balls noting flies, which jerk upon the...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School