E.E. Cummings: The Individual and His Work

Every so often an artist emerges in his field whose ideas are refreshingly different, and breaks the mold set out by society. Such a man was E. E. Cummings. Not only did he break the mold, he shattered it with a monstrous wrecking-ball. " He is known for his idiosyncratic and typographically inventive poetry..."(www.biography.com 1) Cummings firmly believed in his ideas and strived to be an individual in all aspects of life. As he …

…yourself. His life proved that he did everything possible to be the individual that he thought he was supposed to be. He echoes his sentiments about the courage this takes when he said, "To be nobody - but- yourself--in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."(Cummings qtd. in www.cp-tel.net)