The Enormous Room Poem

Americans france fiction subject.

The enormous room poem.

He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i. Foreword for this my son was dead and is alive again. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war.

American and canadian literature. Cummings the enormous room liveright 1921 cummings became famous for his poetry but before that he wrote a now obscure novel cum memoir about his temporary imprisonment during world war i the enormous room. In late august 1917 his friend and colleague william slater brown known in the book only as b was arrested by french authorities as a result of anti war. The enormous room the green eyed stores is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist e.

The enormous room language. Concentration camp inmates fiction subject. France fiction subject. However it also serves as an allegory for cummings mind and his memories of the prison such that when he describes the many residents of his shared cell they still live in the enormous room of his mind.

Cummings best known for his poetry wrote the enormous room 1922 a sort of travelogue autobiography of his imprisonment in france where he had been an ambulance attendant during wwi. World war 1914 1918 france fiction subject. Modeled loosely after bunyan s magnum opus pilgrim s progress cummings gives us the arrest and detention for he is never.