"Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" is a poem written by E.E. Cummings that uses a play with words to show the live of the everyday person in a town. Cummings uses the word anyone to describe a man and the word no one to describe a woman. While writing about the lives of these people in this nameless town, Cummings goes a great job showing the modernist time period writing style. Cummings shows equality, science and progress in his poem "Anyone Lived In a Pretty How Town" making it fit perfectly in the American modernism literature.
             Equality was a major factor during the modernist time period. Men and women wanted to be treated equally in almost all aspects of life. In this poem, Cummings shows equally in the second stanza by stating, "Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same". This stanza is comparing how women and men both do not care for any person. Cummings does not single out one gender in this poem. Cummings makes it obvious that he is not leaving any gender out and looks at both genders has equal of feeling the same feeling.
             Science is growing in the modern time period; therefore, Cummings feels that it is only right to put some kind of science into this poem. Cummings uses science to show death and the seasons of the year. In the 7th stanza Cummings says, "one day anyone died I guess (and no one stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was". This stanza shows that everybody dies one day and how after death people a buried. This is the science behind life. In the end science proves that everybody will within time die. Also, Cummings shows the changing of the seasons throughout the year. Cummings shows the order of the seasons in the first stanza, "spring summer autumn winter". With this, Cummings puts a twist on these two things. Cummings uses the ...