Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
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Applying Reader Response Criticism<br />
Activity<br />
1.7<br />
SUGGESTED Learning Strategies: Discussion Groups, Sketching,<br />
Quickwrite, Rereading, Marking the Text, Metacognitive Markers, TP-CASTT<br />
P o e t r y<br />
A b o u t t h e A u t h o r<br />
© 2011 College Board. All rights reserved.<br />
by E.E. Cummings<br />
in Justspring<br />
when the world is mudluscious<br />
the little<br />
lame balloonman<br />
whistles far and wee<br />
and eddieandbill come<br />
running from marbles and<br />
piracies and it’s<br />
spring<br />
when the world is puddle-wonderful<br />
the queer<br />
old balloonman whistles<br />
far and wee<br />
and bettyandisabel come dancing<br />
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and<br />
it’s<br />
spring<br />
and<br />
5<br />
10<br />
15<br />
E. E. Cummings (1894–<br />
1962) became known for<br />
poems that experimented<br />
with form, style, and<br />
punctuation. During<br />
his career, Cummings<br />
examined traditional<br />
themes such as love<br />
and childhood, but he<br />
explored these themes<br />
with innovative methods,<br />
such as incorporating<br />
typography into the<br />
poem’s meaning, or<br />
using words such as if<br />
and because as nouns.<br />
His awards included<br />
the Bollingen Prize in<br />
Poetry (1958) and the<br />
Charles Eliot Norton<br />
Professorship at Harvard.<br />
the<br />
goat-footed<br />
20<br />
balloonMan<br />
far<br />
and<br />
wee<br />
whistles<br />
<strong>Unit</strong> 1 • Perception Is Everything 15
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