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Poet: e.e. cummings (e.e. cummings Art)
Poem: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
Poem of the Day:
Dec 7 2000
Comment 123 of 123, added on November 16th, 2009 at 1:01 PM.
112 is inaccurate
Sorry, Jay. Unfortunately, you have things backwards. He says: "nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands," meaning that the girl to whom he refers has SMALLER hands than the rain, with tiny, delicate fingers capable of opening ee "petal by petal [...] as Spring opens(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose." This image of being opened by small hands suggests the subtlety of the love that cummings feels for his subject. She is able to find her way into his deepest places of thought and feeling--the heart of his flower--places where people with bigger, clumsier hands would never achieve. Thus, we see that cummings perceives great power in this lover. She finds her way into his heart in a way that is not unfamiliar to anyone who has ever been in love. This is poetry.
Eric from United States
Comment 122 of 123, added on September 30th, 2009 at 1:46 PM.
This poem by ee cummings represents for me one of the 2 or 3 pivotal moments in Woody Allen's great film Hannah and Her Sisters, a film I never neglect to watch on the night of Thanksgiving Day. It could be said to sum up what Allen was trying to say about love too through the characters in his films (including Michael Caine's attempt with this poem to woo Barbara Hershey, his wife's sister!) that love is a very prickly but necessary comodity in this world now. That is something we ought to remember given the trouble that Roman Polanski finds himself in now;self-imposed by him true but condemnable? I wonder.
Gordon Brenner from United States
Comment 121 of 123, added on May 7th, 2009 at 12:38 AM.
In this poem written by E.E Cummings he addresses a woman whom he explains a tone of imagery so that the ready can imagine how in love he was with this women. In his poem he doesn't use correct grammar or punctuation, but uses symbolism to show or put forth his growing love for this certain person.
Sahar Saghafi from United States
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Sorry, Jay. Unfortunately, you have things backwards. He says: "nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands," meaning that the girl to whom he refers has SMALLER hands than the rain, with tiny, delicate fingers capable of opening ee "petal by petal [...] as Spring opens(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose." This image of being opened by small hands suggests the subtlety of the love that cummings feels for his subject. She is able to find her way into his deepest places of thought and feeling--the heart of his flower--places where people with bigger, clumsier hands would never achieve. Thus, we see that cummings perceives great power in this lover. She finds her way into his heart in a way that is not unfamiliar to anyone who has ever been in love. This is poetry.
Eric from United States