This paper aims to explore the uncertainties of English language in general and the lexical and semantic deviations in e e cummings in particular, with reference to ten of his poems, namely, "the hours rise up putting off stars," "in just-spring when the world," "nobody loses all the time," "it is so long since my heart,""as freedom is a breakfastfood," "love is the every only god," "somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond," "sweet spring is your," "if i have made, my lady, intricate," and "anyone lived in a pretty how town." These poems have been studied with the aim to examine how language can break the linguistic norms and yet be communicative and effective. The paper shows how cummings goes beyond the constraints of the linguistic forms with all their conventions and insipid attitudes and carves out a fresh language for all his poetic requirements.

Edward estlin cummings' poetic career began at Harvard, and his first book of verse, Tulips and Chimneys, published in 1923, established his as a lone and unique school of poetry. cummings studied at Harvard University, where he and some of his friends founded the `Harvard Poetry Society.' In this society, they together produced Eight Harvard Poets (published in 1917), in which, due to a printer's error, cummings' name and the I's were printed, according to one story, in lowercase letters. He saw a unique and novel creativity in this error and adopted it as a device to give his poetry a new look. Subsequently, he had `e e cummings' legalized as a signature to his poems. This was the beginning of the major deviant style that helped him establish a new identity for himself and his poetry.

Eve Triem (1974) has observed that among the notable poets, who, diverging from traditional practices, transformed American poetry, cummings was the "most thorough smasher of the logicalities"a transcendentalist who viewed nature as a state of becoming rather than as a stasis, and believed that man through his imaginative power can perceive the natural world directly. "cummings' main concern is how to free himself from mass-culture, achieve an identity independent of custom and class, and respond creatively to his environment without bothering about the world's reaction to his creation" (p. 428).

American Literature Journal, Semantic Deviations, Lexical Deviations, English Vocabulary, Unconventional Words, Linguistic Innovation, Phonological Features, Grammatical Utterances, Paradoxical Statements, Collocational Conventions, Graphalogical Deviations.