e e cummings was an American free form poet who took "free form" to mean that he could do precisely whatever he wanted with punctuation. I suspect it follows the same theory that once you learn the rules of art, you're free to break them. It does create an interesting stylistic effect, but I've never much liked it.
I'd try to reproduce one, as the poems themselves are fairly simple, but it's difficult to remember where, exactly, he breaks the rules and where he doesn't.
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e e cummings was an American free form poet who took "free form" to mean that he could do precisely whatever he wanted with punctuation. I suspect it follows the same theory that once you learn the rules of art, you're free to break them. It does create an interesting stylistic effect, but I've never much liked it.
I'd try to reproduce one, as the poems themselves are fairly simple, but it's difficult to remember where, exactly, he breaks the rules and where he doesn't.