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.

Americans france fiction subject. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. World war 1914 1918 france fiction subject. France fiction subject.

Concentration camp inmates fiction subject. He was lost and is found he was lost by the norton harjes ambulance corps. Foreword for this my son was dead and is alive again. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation.

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 language. 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. 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. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i. The title of the book refers to the large room where cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners.