Old Age Sticks

• Author: ee cummings• Cummings highlights the

modernist technique of fragmentation: including absence of capital letters, irregular use of parentheses, and words being fragmented (broken)

I don’t know about you, but I have respect for anyone that doesn’t capitalize their name!!!

Overview• “Old Age Sticks” focuses on the human

response to the aging process. While “old age” warns youth to slow down, not to be in such a rush to become an adult…..

Old Age Warns Us!

• ….“youth” dismisses the warning and speeds on heading toward old age and death.

Literary Focus• Personification:

Cummings gives human qualities to both “old age” and “youth.”

• While “old age” warns youth to slow down, not to be in such a rush to become an adult, “youth” dismisses the warning.

Theme

• Cycle of Life: although the same warning signs are planted generation after generation, everybody follows the same path towards old age.

So Will You Be….So Will You Be….

……any any different?different?

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