《英美文学教学资料》R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r.pptVIP

R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r E.E.Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings the most interesting experimentalist in modern American poetry. A juggler (变戏法者) with syntax, grammar, and diction, entirely regardless of any established conventions of poetry, His Poetic Style Both his poetry and his painting reflect his concern with the need to be independent in our modern age of technology, distinctive arrangements of the words on the page and the use of lowercase letters, signed his work “e. e. cummings” and even had his name legally changed to this lowercase form, liked to play with words, to break them apart or use them in unusual ways. The small letters, the unconventional syntax, and the unusual spacing of words were his way of expressing individuality and participation in what he called “The New Art.” Yet beneath the unconventional Modernist surfaces, Cummings’ poetry is a lyrical celebration of the most traditional of poetic subjects: the joy of living, the wonders of nature and love itself. R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r who a)s w(e loo)k uponwgath PPEGORHRASS eringint(o- AThe):l eA !p: s a (r rIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs) to rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly ,grasshopper; r-p-o-h-e-s-s-a-g-r [an unidentifiable motion]who as we look up now, PPEGORHRASS [some peculiar thing], gathering into a /The  leap(s), arriving. gRrEaPsPhOs [the letters of the thing scrambled again] to become rearrangingly, grasshopper Analysis The various letter orders of the word grasshopper and their lowercase and capitalization suggest the various impressions （from the first impression of a long jumping thing to the realization that it is a grasshopper ） The use of hyphens（连字号）tran