A Snapshot at the Poetry of Edward Estlin Cummings: A Linguistic Exploration
- Ahmed Abdel Azim ElShiekh
- Ala Eddin Sadeq
- MS Mona Ahmed Saleh
Abstract
This paper deals with an exploration of the poetry world of E. E. Cummings’ (Edward Estlin Cummings, October 14, 1894- September 3, 1962) from a linguistic perspective. For limitations of time and space, a couple of his representative poems are selected with the purpose of conducting a stylistic analysis of his poetry in the light of discourse analysis with particular reference to lexical and syntactic features that help make Cummings’ style a peculiar example of style as deviation from the norm.
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- DOI:10.5539/ells.v2n3p102