E.E. Cummings was a twentieth-century American poet. His works were prime examples of the deadly sins; lust; greed, and pride. Even in the more modern times like today, twenty-first century, people are still willing to read his writings, because the population of today is driven by the sins that are shown though Cummings works.
October 14, 1894, in the city Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edward Estlin Cummings was brought into the world by his mother and father. His father, Edward Cummings, was a professor of Sociology and a professor of Political Science at Harvard. At home, his mother, Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings, would teach him to read and write at such a young age. Both of Cummings’s parents would dabble in the field of literature, and they were supportive of their son’s career choice. Due to his mother teaching him at such a young age, Cummings could start writing and excelling in his schooling as well. Since four years old, Cummings could read and write, and when he entered his formal education in 1901 at seven years old. He excelled in all subjects in school except for arithmetic. Some sources could blame his fall in math on the fact he would move schools at
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Cummings used his time in the room to show how society sought out to take away the citizens freedom and individuality away. Cummings showed this idea of taking it was by using art and unique art and his own way of language. In The Enormous Room, Cummings wrote about three men; The Delectable Mountains. The delectable mountains were the key to rail against society and win. They taught Cummings how to work on himself and how to not buckle under societies crooked ways. At the end of the story, it shows that Cummings matured and became a new man, but all that was due to the delectable mountains as they taught him how to spot a flaw in society and how to win against it by being themselves (Smelstor