Abstract
This thesis explores the poetry of E. E. Cummings and the concept of the uncanny to locate how Cummings through the adaptation of various deviations positions the reader and the text in a circle of familiarity and strangeness. The relationship between habit, uncertainty and familiarity is proposed as the axis that simultaneously becomes the cause and the solution for the perception. Eight poems together with deviation styles found in Cummings’ poem is analyzed in this paper.