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The influence of Tao ethics is manifested in Cumming's tendency to portray the "holistic experience of life: the drawing together of separate areas of experience into a unified whole".

The Tao, also known as the "Way" or the "Process" is a seamless and constant flow of being and change and cannot be properly addressed nor separated from the human condition.

The concept of a transcendent and "timeless moment" or "eternal now" is central to Cumming's work.

Perhaps, his most original contribution to Modernist poetry is typographic poetics, found, among others in the 1958 poem I(a. The poem follows (para. 6-8).

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