‘The Cambridge ladies’ ee cummings

In the poem, The Cambridge Ladies, Cummings berates what he sees as the faults of present day women. It is a very modernist piece focusing on the ladies of Cambridge who are said to be selfish, gossipy and pompous. They are all molded to what they know of as the perfect place and poise of a lady. These souls that they have are those that have been made for them, feeling only what they are told to feel.
Cummings usual style of poetry shows with his abstract use of capitalization and punctuation along with the jazz beat of the piece. It seems that he capitalizes whatever the Cambridge ladies would find important, such as Christ and Longfellow, as well as the topics of the day ‘Mrs.N and Professor D‘. The poem’s beat isn’t traditional and is instead broken up by random commas, periods and other denotations. The poem is very modernist. Syntax is casual broken into non-traditional segments. Even though ‘the Cambridge ladies’ is very far from traditional, it comes c...