somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond - A poem by e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings - somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond Poem of the Day: Dec 7 2000 Comment 114 of 114, added on April 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 PM. You're missing a stanza break. This is my favorite poem. It's the best poem ever written. The least you can do is post it write. PROOF READ! stacey Comment 113 of 114, added on March 12th, 2008 at 5:52 AM. I really can't find words to fully explain this poem, but that doesn't matter, all I can say is that i have loved this poem (unknowingly t'was a poem) eversince I was in Grade School.. heard it in a song entitled " The first time I loved forever" by Lisa Angelle, I actually research it, and happened to fund it right in front of my test paper during college.. Thanks to my English Professor.. til now I do keep a copy of that paper! ... the only poem that touched my heart al sinque from Philippines Comment 112 of 114, added on February 24th, 2008 at 9:17 PM. The last line of this poem is the most interesting and complex line of the entire poem, but I think I may have an answer for it. "nobody,not even the rain..." is describing the girl in this poem. She is the rain. Earlier E. E. metaphorically described himself as a flower, and the girl can open him up. What is one thing the opens up a flower? Rain. The last half of this line says, "has such small hands." In the same stanza of this line Cummings is perplexed about what it is about her that opens and closes, but he truly believes that there is more to her than what meets the eye. When he says that she opens and closes, he is describing her behavior. She teases him and makes him believe that her emotions do not run deep. E. E. does not fall for her games, and believes that there is more to her than what she portrays. Cummings closed himself as fingers, and therefore he knows she does not have "small hands." No one can be that shallow. Everyone hides their true emotions, and they won't truly open up and let them out as they should. Jay from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond, has received 114 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by e.e. cummings with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: e.e. cummings Poem: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond Last read: May 13 2008, 1:56AM Poem of the Day: Dec 7 2000 Viewed 69687 times. Added on February 24th, 2008 at 9:17 PM.

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