The Enormous Room

<p><strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong></p><p>E.E.Cummings</p><p><strong><u>In Great</u></strong> War-era France <strong>E</strong>. <strong>E. Cummings</strong> is lifted along with his friend <strong>B</strong>. from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour la soupe and his mattress in <strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong> the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom <strong>Cummings</strong> describes in lurid detail.<strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong> is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary<strong>. Cummings</strong>' descriptions peppered liberally with colloquial French avoid time and for the most part place and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: <strong><u>The Delectable</u></strong> Mountains.During his imprisonment <strong>Cummings</strong>' father petitioned the U<strong>.</strong>S. and French authorities for his liberty. This and his eventual return home are described in the book's introduction.<strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong></p><p>E.E.Cummings</p><p><strong><u>In Great</u></strong> War-era France <strong>E</strong>. <strong>E. Cummings</strong> is lifted along with his friend <strong>B</strong>. from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour la soupe and his mattress in <strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong> the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom <strong>Cummings</strong> describes in lurid detail.<strong><u>The Enormous Room</u></strong> is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary<strong>. Cummings</strong>' descriptions peppered liberally with colloquial French avoid time and for the most part place and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: <strong><u>The Delectable</u></strong> Mountains.During his imprisonment <strong>Cummings</strong>' father petitioned the U<strong>.</strong>S. and French authorities for his liberty. This and his eventual return home are described in the book's introduction.</p>