A Brief Analysis of E.E. Cummings’s Poem from the Style as Foregrounding

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.422How to use a DOI?

Keywords

E.E. Cummings; Poetry; foregrounding theory

Abstract

E.E. Cummings is considered as the represent poet of American modern experimental poem. He has remained as a symbol of the pioneering spirit of modern poetic practice because of his unusual artistic style of poem. This paper discusses E. E. Cummings’ Poetry on the basis of foregrounding theory from three prospective—lexical deviation, graphological deviation and syntactic deviation. It aims at helping reader to build up a better way of thinking to understand the meaning and aesthetic value of poems.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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