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The Exploration of the Pictorial Power of the Poem 　　Abstract: E. E. Cummings is one of the most well-known poets in the U.S. in the 20th century. He is also a well-known painter, and sometimes he uses a poem to describe a picture. This paper tends to explore the pictorial power of one of his poems. 　　Key words: Pictorial Power ; E. E. Cummings; poem language 　　1 Introduction 　　Cummings was a famous poet in the 20th century in the U.S. because of his unconventional use of typography, super-realism, and sometimes scandalous choice of words and topics. Some of the titles of his poems are very strange, and the lines of his poems are often uneven. He also tries to be unique in grammar and terms, and arbitrary in division, unusual in punctuation. Except emphasis, his poems are not capitalized; even “I” and his own name are lowercased. 　　Under the unique form, He showed remarkable lyric talent and artistic sensitivity. He is adept in the use of slangs and dialects of the streets and lanes. The sociality of his poems has been enhanced, compared with those of the same age, but the themes of his poems are not broad enough, lacking enough depth of thought. 　　As an American modernist poet, he is also a well-known painter, so he always tries to use poem to create an image and a picture, and use typography to “paint a picture” with some of his poems, in this way to make the impression and feeling of the readers more vivid. The experiments and trials he has taken are brand-new, strange, bold, and endless. 　　This poem is one of the most famous in Cummings. Not only because it is very short, it is very unique in form. Not only because it creates a picture in form, but the form and the content are very consistent. So this paper tries to have an exploration of the pictorial image of this poem and its content. 　　2 Analysis of the pictorial power of language 　　L(a 　　le 　　af 　　fa 　　ll 　　s) 　　one 　　l 　　iness 　　—By E. E. Cummings 　　The first impression comes to readers’