EE Cummings Modernist Poet
the human condition and their place in the world. When compared to the romantic period, modernism appears edgier and less serene. The romantic period had more of a focus on the natural world and the experience of being; modernism focused more on the inner self, seeing more of a decline and fraught fragmentation with the external world. From a literary perspective, the period meant a subversion of typical norms: modernist prose and poetry played with structure and form in ways that readers weren’t used to and often had more ironic or edgier intentions. For these reasons, E.E. Cummings and his poetry represents the… Continue Reading...
