Abstract
E. E. Cummings’ poetry has fascinated readers and critics since the first edition of
his poems, primarily because of its unique and unusual style. Although he belongs
to the modernist school of poets, with a literary consciousness and sensibility
peculiar to the school, some critics still consider his poetry repetitive in themes
and technique, and fail to see modernism and postmodernism as prominent
features of his picture poems. This article stylistically analyses two of Cummings’
poems, ‘1(a’ and ‘fl’ in order to unravel the modern and postmodern themes and
techniques instantiated in the poems through foregrounded deviations. The paper
employs five types of foregrounded deviations: typographical, grammatical,
lexical, semantic, and morphological as a theoretical framework―deviations
proposed by Geoffrey Leech in A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. The study
finds the poems deviant to various degrees, in all five respects, and concludes that
modernism and postmodernism are prominent features of the poems both in terms
of themes and techniques; hence, style and meaning are embedded and
complementary to each other in his poetry.
Riaz Hussain, Amjad Saleem. (2017) Modernism and Postmodernism Foregrounded: A Stylistic Analysis of E. E. Cummings Poems, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-24, Issue-2.
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