Intensity: An Essential Element in e. e. cummings' Aesthetic Theory and Practice - 0 views
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cummings used the circus as a metaphor for his idea of what Art should be. At the circus, the spectator/reader is continually amazed by the "unbelievably skilful and inexorably beautiful and unimaginably dangerous things" which are "continually happening" in the circus poem. There should always be such an intense experience happening in the tent or on the poetic stage that the spectator/reader "feels that there is a little too much going on at any given moment."
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Cummings' object was to capture the essence of each experience he recorded with the fewest possible words.
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The author describes the element of intensity found in almost every poem by E. E. Cummings and how he developed it.