TODAY IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE AMERICAN POET, E.E.CUMMINGS !

Today Is E.E.CUMMINGS' (e e cummings' ) Birthday !
He Was Born This Day On October14, 1894 In Massachusetts,USA. !
Highly Experimental Poet Of His Generation,CUMMINGS Produced a Good Deal Of Poems : 2900 Poems (almost) !
NATURE,LOVE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MASS MENTALITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL ORIGINALITY, Are Some Of The Most Recurring Themes In His Poetry.
It Is Rather Hard To Categorize Him Into Any Fixed Group For He Wrote All Kinds Of Verse : Traditional, Avant-Garde,Surrealist,Dadaist,Impressionistic and many other known poetic forms n movements!
E.E.CUMMINGS IS GENERALLY REGARDED AS AN PRE-EMINENT POET IN MODERN AMERICAN POETRY AND DESPITE BEING A VICTIM OF COMPARISIONS WITH A ELIOT OR A POUND,HE SURVIVED HIS UNIQUENESS AS A POET AND AS SOMEONE WHO HAD ALWAYS TRIED TO BRING FORCE PLUS FRESHNESS IN LANGUAGE !
He was also an accomplished painter and due to that he often put images unto the page of his poems and that often makes his poetry hard to grasp!
Eroticism Was A firm feature in his many poems and which had earned bad names during those times . . .but,now considered as assets of new aestheticism !
'XIAPE : Seventy One Poems' Is HisMost Candid Work And Which Was The Result Of Cummings Relationship and later marriage with the wife of his fast friend,Mr.S.Thyer.
'TULIPS AND CHIMNEYS' Was His First Poem Collection.
'THE ENORMOUS ROOM' Was His Attempt To Paint His First Hand Experiences As An Ambulance Driver In A French Border Town And His Later Internment Of Around Four Months On Charges Of Suspicions!
The Novel Was Hailed By Fitzgerald As A Very Important Work Coming Out Of The First World War Penned By The Younger Generation Of Writers !
'HIM' WAS CUMMINGS FIRST PLAY and a hit !
He penned a few more dramas and gave a series of lectures at the Harvard University and elsewhere!
He kept touring Europe ,Africa and other places and his famous tour of USSR in 1931 resulted in a fine piece of travelogue, 'EIMI ',In Which He Depicted The Suffocating Plus Suppressive Conditions In Russia !
He Died Of A Massive Stroke At The Age Of 67 !
E.E.CUMMINGS DEMANDS PLUS DESERVES SPECIAL TREATMENT AND WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN ABIDING PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAN LITERATURE !
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