Both of them found themselves in one large holding space with other suspects. This would also mark his first attack on authoritarianism with the use of the written word. Later on, the culmination of his politically charged literature would appear in the form of a scathing account of his visit to the Soviet Union.
Cummings traveled there in expecting that the communist society was a betterment. He was vastly disappointed. Norman Friedman , in his book E. He would invent words through synthesis. He would use non-nouns as nouns and would place his own meaning into words. He would use irregular spacing. Specifically, he had a fondness for writing about love.
His work in the s was erotic and inspired by his affair and later short — lived marriage to Elaine Orr. As time passed, his idea of love changed and it was reflected in his poetry. He found increasing reverence in the notion, and by the end of it all, he would find the transcendence that leads to love as God. The overall tone of his poems leads critics to describe him as a perpetual child.
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Olivia Rodrigo —. His personal life was less ordered, his first two marriages ending in divorce and enforced estrangement from his only child, Nancy. In he also suffered the loss of his beloved father in a car accident that left his mother badly injured. However, he found happiness in his third marriage to the photographer, Marion Morehouse. Later collections extended his typographical and grammatical experiments further though they have been criticised for a lack of development in terms of tone and subject matter.
Cummings died from a brain haemorrhage in Cummings was honoured with many literary awards in his life though critical opinion was divided and remains so over his legacy: some dismiss his work as sentimental and politically naive, whilst others value him for his anarchist and mystical beliefs.
What is indisputable is his status as one of the most widely read and popular American poets. His Archive recordings present Cummings in the intimacy of his Greenwich Village home. The poems themselves are fine examples of the satiric and romantic aspects of his work. The deliberately simple language and use of refrain gives the poem a fable-like quality and succeeds in being both sophisticated and childlike, a classic Cummings paradox. A Penguin in Moscow Eimi, by E.
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