anyone who lived in a pretty how town Analysis

It ain't easy to talk about the form and meter of this poem, but here goes. The most straightforward thing to notice is that Cummings' constructs the poem in nine quatrains, or nine groups of...

The speaker of this poem obviously doesn't talk like a normal person because they mix all kinds of words together in ways that are tough to understand. It's almost as if the speaker doesn't really...

There's a lot that Cummings' isn't straightforward about in this poem. But one thing he is straightforward about is the setting. It's right there in the title: "a pretty how town." Now the weirdest...

You don't have to listen very hard to realize that there's something unique about the sound of E.E. Cummings' poetry. Just read "anyone lived in a pretty how town" alongside some of his other works...

Like many of his poems, E.E. Cummings decided to keep all the letters in his title in lower case. The overall effect of this tactic is to make the title seem as though it was pulled out of some lon...

Sometimes it's tough to explain what a certain poet's calling card is. But with Cummings, that's no problem at all. For starters, the guy constantly uses lower-case letters in places that call for...

We didn't give it a ten because there are harder poems out there, but the fact remains that Cummings' poetry is really tough if you plan on getting as much as you can out of it. Sure, you could pro...

Cummings gives us a reason for not giving up on our dreams. The guy actually had to self-publish a lot of his work before he ever got recognized. (Source.)Did you know Cummings was in the First Wor...

Yes, Cummings symbolizes the act of having children with the image of planting seeds, but the association isn't sexy at all. If you can see sex in this poem, you can probably see it in an old boot.