e.e.cummings extra credit

To receive extra credit in English class, write out this poem by e.e. cummings and the brief bio in purple ink and turn it in by 12:30 p.m. on Monday, January 19.


my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and
taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and
chipping with sharp fatal tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of
chrome and execute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am
becoming something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings.

According to Wikipedia, "Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as e. e. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 900 poems, an autobiographical novel, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular."