The copy editor of the book, however, mistook Cummings's intentions as typographical errors and made "corrections." In 1917 Cummings moved to New York, was employed very briefly at a mail-order book company, and soon began working full-time on his poetry and art. ... The "tulips" of the first volume are free-verse lyric poems that present a nostalgic glance at his childhood. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Tr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. ... Her unique free style is due mainly to her peculiar placement of punctuation, such as dashes that break the lines keeping them open, unusual grammar and capitalization of seemingly banal words. ... The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-diction...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Firstly, he is free to satirise the superficiality of the time without exposing himself to the imminent public outcry. ... This is reminiscent of the intervention of Aphrodite in Book V of Homer's "Iliad" to remove her son Aeneas from the battlefield. ... We see them also in their role as followers, Belinda's army, just as an epic hero would have his faithful servants we see how "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, / We trust the important charge, the petticoat" . ...

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