A Brief Analysis of E.E. Cummings’s Poem from the Style as Foregrounding
Authors
Hongping Chen, Zheng Zhao
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Hongping Chen
Available Online November 2015.
- DOI
- 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.422How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- E.E. Cummings; Poetry; foregrounding theory
- Abstract
E.E. Cummings is considered as the represent poet of American modern experimental poem. He has remained as a symbol of the pioneering spirit of modern poetic practice because of his unusual artistic style of poem. This paper discusses E. E. Cummings’ Poetry on the basis of foregrounding theory from three prospective—lexical deviation, graphological deviation and syntactic deviation. It aims at helping reader to build up a better way of thinking to understand the meaning and aesthetic value of poems.
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- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hongping Chen AU - Zheng Zhao PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - A Brief Analysis of E.E. Cummings’s Poem from the Style as Foregrounding BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1650 EP - 1653 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.422 DO - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.422 ID - Chen2015/11 ER -