nd leave what is obvious and conventional vague . . ." you make us shrill presents always shut in the sumptuous screech of simplicity "This exuberant display of words describes the same technique Cummings uses in hispoetry. Just as Picasso has bravely graced the faces of portraits with only one eye,Cummings has written with an abstract originality. Both, as Cummings last lineconcludes: " hue form truly ".This to achieve true form has led Cummings to write about all aspects of life - evenwhat is unmistakably ugly. His realist belief was, in fact, that beauty depended on itscoexistence with ugliness. Cummings says, in Poems 1923 - 1954 , that the world will losesomething important if " badness is not felt as bad ". This is why he could fearlessly bringto life that which in society, was only whispered behind closed doors. An instance is apoem from Poems 1923 - 1954 which concerns a drunken man throwing up in therestroom of a restaurant:" a) glazed mind layed in a urinal . . . slightly to sick torightly die . . . "Amidst the less than serene image, there is a serious depth of humanity rendered. Thelyrical words blatantly expose the ugly, leaving windows open to contrast it withuntainted beauty, such as:" nights speechless carnival the painting of the dark with meteors. "The urgent properties of realism in art apply to Cummings poetry as well. Theeffort to record the world without hesitation, precisely as it is seen, can be detected byadmiring the work of realist painters. Cummings has also presented the perspective in hispoems as if they had just instantaneously occurred. A couple examples of this are theopening stanzas in two of his Viva poems:" if you and i awakening discover that ( somehow in the dark ) this world has been Picked, like a piece of clover from the green meadow of time . . . "( Viva LXI )" a light Out) and first of all foam - like hair spatters creasing pillow next everywhere hidinglyseek . . . "( Viva XLIX )T...
