Pretty How Town

Read the following e.e. cummings poem carefully, and then in a well-organized essay, analyze how cummings uses language to describe the setting as well as to convey mood and meaning.
In the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, E.E. Cummings’ uses language to describe a setting of an average suburb, convey a content mood, and establish the meaning, which is that everyone is born and everyone dies, regardless of what happens in between.
The strange, confusing syntax is the first thing the reader notices about this poem because of the title. “a pretty how town” seems to be a mistake, because at first it does not make sense; as one reads and interprets the poem, it begins to make more sense. The town in which this poem is set in is very average and mundane, but the suburb is a metaphor for life. It is a “how” town because it reveals how people move through life—they “sowed their isn’t”, “reaped their same”, “laughed their cryings and did their dance”, “said their nevers they slept their dream”, and so on. Cummings uses this poem to explain all the different things people do throughout their lives, especially focusing on some random suburb (one can assume it is a
The sentences are not structured in a conventional way, and it is slightly confusing, but also helps to create a melodic rhythm. When read out loud, the poem sounds almost like a lullaby, and even if the reader doesn’t understand the actual meaning, they still experience the atmosphere of strange contentment. The symbolic mention of the seasons and nature also contributes to this hypnotically content mood; the seasons, weather, celestial bodies, etc. are mentioned a few times, somewhat randomly; for example, on line three “spring summer autumn winter”, line eight “sun moon stars rain”, line eleven “autumn winter spring summer”, etc. These random interjections are almost like a chant, and break up the actual plot of the