Question

Like many modernist works, E.E. Cummings's "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a poem that _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

experiments with language, symbolism, and imagery

Explanation:

This poet belongs to the part of the inventors of modern poetry, to the list of those few who have truly transformed the poetic language of our time, in tune with the prospect of a civilization whose increasing scientific progress is abolishing the boundaries between reality and fiction. He had a writing full of symbolism and metaphors, most of his poems were untitled, unpunctuated, and non standard structure.

The poem"anyone lived in a pretty how town" , like most of that poet's poems, is was written with symbolism, metaphors, imagery and allusions. The poem has a different structure and looks more like the poet was experimenting with language.

Answer 2

E.E. Cummings' poem "Anyone lived lived in a pretty how town" is an experiment with language, symbolism and imagery. He was influenced by erlier imagists and made his own experiment refered to that movement.