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hist     whist little ghostthings tip-toe twinkle-toe

little twitchy witches and tingling goblins hob-a-nob    hob-a-nob

little hoppy happy toad in tweeds tweeds little itchy mousies

with scuttling eyes   rustle and run     and hidehidehide whisk

whisk    look out for the old woman with the wart on her nose what she’ll do to yer nobody knows

for she knows the devil    ooch the devil    ouch the devil ach    the great

green dancing devil devil

devil devil

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====e.e.cummings has been a poet from a very young age. He showed an interest in poetry at a young age, and then studied literature at Harvard College from 1911-1918. It is said that he wrote every day during those four years, alongside joining the editorial board for Harvard Monthly. During the end of e.e.cumming’s college experience, he became fascinated with cubism and modernism. He worshipped Pablo Picasso’s art and read books by Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound. Although edward estlin cummings was more of a poet, his inspiration came from art instead of other poetry. In his poetry, he writes about love, war and youth. Almost all of his poems are written in free verse. This ‘free verse’ is taken to a whole new level with e.e.cummings. He broke every single poetry rule. His poems use odd and uneven capitalization, they are idiosyncratic and there is no syntax. He uses unusual word constructions, as well as odd capitalization and punctuation. Although e.e.cummings was anything but a normal poet, he is much loved by readers everywhere. ====

==== E.E Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14th in 1894. Ever since he was a child, he loved poetry, and wanted to be a poet. He used to write a poem a day when he was 8 for 14 years. In 1916 he attended Harvard and decided that modern poetry was very interesting for him. He wrote visual poems where you could see what was happening by looking at the poem. His first book was // The Enormous Room //. He also wrote // Tulips and Chimneys // as a poetry book //. // After he graduated from Harvard he spent some of his life working for a mail order book dealer. He didn’t like this job so he quit about when World War One had started. He decided he waned to be in the ambulance work for the french-(the U.S wasn’t involved yet.) After this, he did another army camp, but for Massachusetts. When leaving the army he married his friends ex wife; Elaine Thayer, and had a baby daughter Nancy in 1919. Unfortunately Elaine divorced him in 1925, for another man. Alas, he died September 3rd in 1962 with his many famous poems. ====


 * Bibliography**

"E. E. Cummings." // Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More //. Web. 10 May 2011. .

"E. E. Cummings : The Poetry Foundation." // Poetry Foundation //. 4 Sept. 1962. Web. 9 May 2011. .

**Poems by Brianna and Rachel **
Spring is sunny

 its when you see a bunny

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<span style="color: #408bf9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is the sounds of the spring breeze

<span style="color: #96d269; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">its when allergies come out and you have to sneeze

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<span style="color: #992eb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> little kids runny noses

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<span style="color: #679c3f; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> leaves start to fall

<span style="color: #2c1774; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">but be careful, the lightning is large

<span style="color: #2c1774; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">dont get hit by the lightening

<span style="color: #2c1774; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> but its ok

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