Additionally, cummings rarely titled his poems, perhaps wishing to avoid giving them any added meaning outside of their text. By playing with these elements of language, cummings challenged the very nature and meaning of language, often resulting in new and surprising meanings. Cummings, one of America's leading modernist poets, was known for his experimentation with capitalization, punctuation, and syntax (the sequence of arranged words) in his work. The poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is one of the most anthologized works by one of America's most anthologized poets, e. CUMMINGS 1940 INTRODUCTION AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY POEM SUMMARY THEMES STYLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT CRITICAL OVERVIEW CRITICISM SOURCES FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION Taking a series of stereotypes about black people and the way white Britons have perceived them, Zephaniah deftly overturns them.E. In ‘Neighbours’, he explores the old scenario where a black family moves in next door to a white family (something that the politically incorrect sitcom Love Thy Neighbour tapped into in the 1970s on British TV). 1958) has written particularly well about changing attitudes to race in this period. Many Britons took a while to accept black people from the former British colonies who arrived in the UK after the end of the Second World War, and racism was not only common but, in many circles, even socially acceptable until well into the final quarter of the twentieth century. How well do we know our neighbours? They seem like our inverse, or ‘mirror-image’, this relationship even being reflected (as it were) in the designs of many houses next door to each other… The kind of poem that surprises us with every new line.Īnyone who lives, or has lived, next door to people who like to play ‘bass that thuds / like the music of demolition’ (why is it always just bass? Don’t any neighbours like an actual tune?) will doubtless identify with this vision of next-door neighbours – which Dunmore treats in level-headed, down-to-earth tones here. 1935) is a Brazilian poet, and in this poem she demonstrates a gloriously sharp eye for the little details as the poem’s speaker observes her neighbour picking his teeth, and she realises she is falling in love with him. This is wonderfully touching short poem about shared human sympathy and community, and might be productively paired with Frost’s poem above, since they both express a similar idea. Smith (1928-98) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. Whilst Frost believes that such markers are a throwback to an earlier stage in mankind’s development, his neighbour believes that ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ That line has often been quoted out of context to give the impression that Frost approves of the sentiment in fact, he disagrees with it. ‘Mending Wall’ is about the human race’s primitive urge to ‘mark its territory’ and our fondness for setting clear boundaries for our houses and gardens. No selection of poems about neighbours would be complete without this, one of Frost’s most famous poems. Service (1874-1958) touts the holy trinity of ‘Bread, Wine and Liberty’, as well as communion of both a religious and secular kind: the poet and his neighbour both bring something to their lives, and are content with these three simple offerings. In this poem, the British-Canadian Robert W.
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