He was made famous for his unique poetry about sex and...

He was made famous for his unique poetry about sex and immature topics E.E. Cummings is the name of this poet who lived from 1894 through 1962. Cummings was a unique person with an equally unique life and unsuccessful love life that shaped his award winning unique writing style. E.E. Cummings was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 3rd, 1962. Cummings’ dad was a professor at Harvard who turned into a Unitarian pasture. His mother had encouraged Cummings to write and to always keep a journal (english.illinois.edu). E.E. Cummings had gotten his A.M. from Harvard in 1916 and in 1917 he published some of his early poems in the book â€Å"Eight Harvard Poet†. The same year that he had published his poems, he left for France to be an†¦show more content†¦While E.E. Cummings had been painting Nancy’s portrait, he soon reveals that he was her father and they get a healthy father-daughter relationship. One of E.E. Cummings most famous poems is â€Å"Humanity I Love You†, a free verse poem about all of the faults of humanity (hellopoetry.com). The poems title is a both a lie and a contradiction that becomes apparent when you read the last 4 words â€Å"humanity I hate you† (Humanity I Love You stanzas 56). This is just one example of E.E. Cummings unique writing style. A lot of his poems were about sex or strange subjects such as â€Å"The Day of the Spoken Lyric is past† where E.E. Cummings sais â€Å"The poem which has at last taken its place does not sing itself; it builds itself, three dimensionally, gradually, subtly, in the consciousness of the experiencer(Cummings). In the 1950’s cummings began another career as a reader of his poetry to audiences in New York and college campuses, becoming the most popular performer of the academic arts, after Robert Frost. During his life time he had received many honors that came in many forms. He received a Gu ggenheim fellowship in 1951, a collected edition of his poems, a special citation from the National Book Award Committee in 1955, and the Bollingen Prize in 1958. EE Cummings had a very successful career until his death in 1962 by a stroke at Joy farm. EE Cummings may be remembered many years to come because of his unique writing style, unfortunate love life, and