The Enormous Room Poem

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.

The enormous room poem.

The title of the book refers to the large room where cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. Modeled loosely after bunyan s magnum opus pilgrim s progress cummings gives us the arrest and detention for he is never. 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. The enormous room language. 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.

He was lost and is found he was lost by the norton harjes ambulance corps. 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. American and canadian literature. After we played 4 square in the enormous room where all the soldiers were triaged from exploring the higher grades the flattened esplanades of their daddy s golf courses and she road horses in the enormous room and the red molecules floated like envious doves on strings and i sang alone in my room to a crooked pestilent rood.

The enormous room the green eyed stores is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist e. France fiction subject. World war 1914 1918 france fiction subject.