Abstract
As a modernist and avant-garde artist and poet, E.E.Cummings boldly experimented with poetic forms and language, forming a unique style of his own. To understand him, the analysis of his language techniques is very important. Therefore, this paper gives focus on the analysis of his language techniques in terms of morphology, word-class and punctuation. In respect of morphology, Cummings’s exploration of the most potential possibilities of the morphemic structures of words is discussed, such as the unusual combination of words, the split-up of one word into several parts, or the free addition of derivational affixes to create new words. Cummings brought novelty to his audience and gave some words nonce-meanings in certain contexts by deliberately changing the established parts of speech. In punctuation, his favourite parenthesis and the use of period are discussed. Cummings has rendered them special functions, such as rhetorical, rhythmical and psychological effects.
Key words: Cummings; peculiarity; morphology; word-class; punctuation
摘要
作为现代主义先锋派画家与诗人,E.E.肯明斯在诗歌形式及语言上进行了大胆的尝试,从而形成了自己独特的风格。若要更好地理解这种独特的风格,对其语言的分析必不可少。因此,本文将从词语的形态、词类、以及标点符号三个方面重点分析肯明斯在其诗歌中所运用的独特的语言技巧。就形态而言,肯明斯将词语任意组合与拆分,随意添加词缀以构成新词;在特定情况下,他又通过刻意违背词语的常规用法来赋予一些词汇以偶有语义,给读者带来了耳目一新的感受;标点符号,尤其是圆括号与句号的奇怪运用,也是肯明斯诗中的独特之处。
关键词:肯明斯;奇特;形态;词类;标点符号
目录
Abstract 1
摘要 1
Introduction 2
1. Analysis in Terms of Morphology 2
2. Analysis in Terms of Word-Class 4
3. Analysis in Terms of Punctuation 6
Introduction
E.E.Cummings (1894-1962), a poet and painter, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister, and Rebecca Haswell Clarke. He had an inclination for arts and literature from an early age. While in the Harvard, he became intensely interested in the new movement in arts and began to experiment with free verse and to develop as a self-taught cubist painter. He wrote poems to celebrate nature, natural spontaneous power, the individual, as well as love. He was such a radical Modernist artist and poet that conformity, mass psychology, and snobbery were frequent targets of his humorous and sometimes scathing satires. His knowledge of the visual arts led him to experiment with versification and by 1918, he had created a poetic style of his own. It is his innovative and controversial verse that places him among the most popular and widely anthologized poets of the twentieth century. His poetic style is noted for its peculiar and playful techniques: a unique employment of punctuation, idiomatic speech, compressed words, dislocated syntax, and unusual typography, line division, and capitalization in order to capture the particulars of a single movement or moment in time.

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