This research paper will be about EE Cummings and his life as a poet. How he wrote his poems, the grammar he used in his poems. The rewards EE Cummings achieved before his death. There will be three poems that will be critically analyzed for the literary devices used and the type of poetry in the three poems. Biography His early experiments in poetry while still a child were encouraged by liberal parents to whom Cummings remained close (“EE Cummings”). After an unsuccessful period in private school, Cummings' father transferred him to the Agassiz school, of which Maria Baldwin was head. Here he demonstrated a talent for memorizing the poems of Longfellow and Emerson and, before adolescence, wrote a few simple poems of two or four lines (Frazee, "E.E. Cummings"). His poetry covered many topics, but he was particularly interested in physical love and the miracle of life. He wrote several poems praising God for rivers, trees and animals: lions and tigers and especially elephants (Frazee, “EE Cummings). His experience as a painter, as well as a writer, meant that for Cummings the appearance of poetry on the page contributed significantly to its mood and meaning (“EE Cummings”). His first published poems appeared in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets in 1917. These eight pieces feature the experimental verse forms and lowercase personal pronoun "I" that would become his trademark. The book's editor, however, mistook Cumming's intentions as typographical errors and made "corrections" (vol12: page 149). Cummings recorded the experience in The Enormous Room (1922), an experimental prose work that remains some of the best war literature ever written by an American (“EE Cummings” p.13). He... in the center of the sheet... the narrator isolated from the rest of the world (“EE Cummings page 60). Cummings uses synesthesia again in the last two lines of the fourth verse, along with a whole series of transcendental metaphors that add infinite complexity to what is being described. By working through metaphors and trying to imagine for himself what love is and what it means, accepting that love is an infinite process of "opening" and "closing", he has achieved a transcendental understanding, reflected in the perfect rhyme of the last four verses (“EE Cummings page 61). The poems were critically analyzed and the type of poems the three are about. How EE Cummings wrote his poems, the grammar he used to write the poems. E.E. Cummings uses lowercase letters when uppercase letters are needed. EE Cummings was the one who pushed the boundaries of typography.