In late august 1917 his friend and colleague william slater brown known in the book only as b was arrested by french authorities as a result of anti war.
The enormous room poem.
Cummings best known for his poetry wrote the enormous room 1922 a sort of travelogue autobiography of his imprisonment in france where he had been an ambulance attendant during wwi.
He was lost and is found he was lost by the norton harjes ambulance corps.
Americans france fiction subject.
The title of the book refers to the large room where cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners.
However it also serves as an allegory for cummings mind and his memories of the prison such that when he describes the many residents of his shared cell they still live in the enormous room of his mind.
France fiction subject.
Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i.
American and canadian literature.
Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war.
The enormous room language.
After we played 4 square in the enormous room where all the soldiers were triaged from exploring the higher grades the flattened esplanades of their daddy s golf courses and she road horses in the enormous room and the red molecules floated like envious doves on strings and i sang alone in my room to a crooked pestilent rood.
Foreword for this my son was dead and is alive again.
World war 1914 1918 france fiction subject.
Modeled loosely after bunyan s magnum opus pilgrim s progress cummings gives us the arrest and detention for he is never.
Concentration camp inmates fiction subject.