What is Humanity? 

         Humanity,of course, carries many different meanings to various individuals. The word humanity has no exact definition but through these following five poems each poet expresses their thoughts and feelings towards their idea of what humanity means.

Poet #1- E.E Cummings (Poems being studied: Humanity I Love You & I Shall Imagine Life)

           Edward Estlin Cummings also known as E.E Cumming was born October 14th, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died September 3rd 1962 in North Conway, New Hampshire. Edward was born to a well known family in Cambridge, his father Edward Cumming was a professor at Harvard University and his mother Rebecca was a stay at home mother who watched over E.E Cumming and his sister Elizabeth. It was Rebecca who introduced and got Edward into writing. As a child he was passionate about drawing and writing and took his inspiration from the outdoors and the surrounding children in his neighborhood. In 1915 he graduated from Harvard University and then received an advanced degree from Harvard in 1916. As his career began to develop Edward became known as an American Poet, painter, author and playwright. Edward became quite popular.

        After Cummings graduated for Harvard he became an ambulance driver in France just before America entered World War I, but was later imprisoned for three months on suspicion of holding views critical of the French war effort, and this experience in prison provided the material for his first book. Early on in his career Cummings had divided his time between New York City, Paris and France, where he studied painting. Later he divided his time between New York City and the family home in North Conway, New Hampshire. He was always interested in the visual arts, and his paintings and drawings became very popular as his career began to blossom.