E.E. Cummings
American poet
1894-1967
[i thank You God for most this amazing]
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
-e.e. cummings
E.E.Cummings was born In Cambridge Massachusetts, and from an early age, he was encouraged by his parents to express his creativity. As a student art Harvard University, he delivered a daring commencement address on new directions for modern art, announcing to the world that his own art would take new directions.
In 1917, during the First World War, he went to volunteer for an ambulance corps in France, where he was imprisoned (falsely) for three months. Afterwards he wrote about his experiences and sent the stories, along with some poems, back to the United States. While in France he also studied painting in Paris. When her returned to the United States, he found out that he was famous for his writings.
In his poetry, Cummings plays with language, using words in different ways than most people, and he became famous for that. Cummings published more than one hundred poems during his life.
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