Summary
The cultural intelligentsia served as useful idiots for centralized governments, from Wyndham Lewis writing of his favorable impressions of early Nazi Germany to Ezra Pound notoriously broadcasting fascist propaganda to Allied troops from Italy during World War II. Soviet Russia as pictured in Eimi seems the complete negation of Cummings' philosophy of "Is," that human beings should live so as to express their own individuality - to be "alive"; to place a value on feeling, on growing, on diversity, on "being continually born"; to pursue happiness; to cherish freedom; to rejoice in pleasure; to give and respond to love.
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Eimi Mine
E. E. Cummings is one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century. He perhaps is best known to contemporary readers for his experimental and playful verse in the Modernist tradition. But he also wrote two important prose works that unfortunately have been relegated to relative obscurity. The first, The Enormous Room, is a fictional- ized retelling of his incarceration in France for alleged treason during World War I. The second, Eimi, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of its first publication this year, is a reworking of his travel journals to the USSR in 1931.
Eimi is a difficult yet rewarding literary exercise, depicting as it does the true nature of collectivist ideology as practiced dur...See the full content of this document
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