Iconicity in Cummings's Poetry

Edward Estill Cummings (1895 - 1962) is known for his leaving off the conventional techniques and structures to a hi gh means of poetic expressions. He, radically, experimented with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; abandoning tradit ional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expressions. One of the important reasons is the mixing of the traditional structure and the literal meanings of many of the neos he uses. However the aim of this paper i s to explain the relation or the correspondence between the forms in Cummings' poems and the meaning behind these forms. The study tackles two of Cummings' poems:"my father moved through dooms of loves" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town".