1. E.E. Cummings and His Works
... attack on Atlanta, where he shouted "War is all hell," while he plowed through a southern civilian town during his raid. 1 These names create a forewarning of destruction and chaos to the main character, whom Cummings simply mentions as "him". One example of this pattern is " plato told him: he couldn't believe it (jesus told him; he wouldn't believe it)." 2 Beside the more obvious message ... death. Although these protests against war seem typical in our modern society, Cummings" ideas were radical during the early 20th century. To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might...
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