Justine Reynolds
Miss Kiss
English 10 Honors-2
3 May 2015
Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French concentration camp. After returning to his home state he married twice; both marriages ending with divorce. Despite his troubled past; Cummings poems benefitted greatly. Cummings expresses his inner emotions and thoughts within his own unique writing style that poets of the twentieth century do not commonly use. With …show more content…
This shows how the author believes that the government will step on society and loved ones to become successful in life. Being successful in this poem is said to be greater to society than helping thy neighbor. Although Cummings is mostly a writer of themes of love he reserves his hatred “for political tyranny, of both left and right, for the ill-treatment or torture of individuals, for bureaucrats, politicians, salesman, people unable to think for themselves, and bigots” (Docherty). After Cummings and a friend, John Dos Passos, were arrested by French military due to suspicion of undesirable activities one can very well see his hatred toward society and any form of government. He expresses his hatred towards them and seems very familiar with how the society
Miss Kiss
English 10 Honors-2
3 May 2015
Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French concentration camp. After returning to his home state he married twice; both marriages ending with divorce. Despite his troubled past; Cummings poems benefitted greatly. Cummings expresses his inner emotions and thoughts within his own unique writing style that poets of the twentieth century do not commonly use. With …show more content…
This shows how the author believes that the government will step on society and loved ones to become successful in life. Being successful in this poem is said to be greater to society than helping thy neighbor. Although Cummings is mostly a writer of themes of love he reserves his hatred “for political tyranny, of both left and right, for the ill-treatment or torture of individuals, for bureaucrats, politicians, salesman, people unable to think for themselves, and bigots” (Docherty). After Cummings and a friend, John Dos Passos, were arrested by French military due to suspicion of undesirable activities one can very well see his hatred toward society and any form of government. He expresses his hatred towards them and seems very familiar with how the society