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Ee Cummings Visual Techniques

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“The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter”-E.E Cummings. E.E Cummings was born in 1894 in Massachusetts, he attended a college in 1915, after graduating he became an ambulance driver during WWI. Then, in 1930 he started to write poems. How does E.E Cummings use Visual and auditory techniques to convey meaning? E.E Cummings creates meaning by using sight and sound. First, E.E Cummings used visual techniques to convey meaning, as the supported by document B “R.P.O.P.H.E.S.S.A.G.R. This poem uses visual techniques to convey meaning. For example, that the shape and word placement is odd and makes the poem look like steps. Also, Cummings uses odd punctuation. In fact “,grasshopper;” the odd punctuation makes the word itself look
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