"Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond" by 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 easily will 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 colour 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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Who wrote the poem "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond"?

E. E. Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962)

E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. He is regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20^th century with his modernist free-form poetry. His works include 2,900 poems, two novels, four plays, and several essays. He wanted to be a poet from childhood and wrote poems daily from age 8 to 22. His poems have idiosyncratic syntax and use lower-case spellings for poetic expressions.

"Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond"  explanation

In the poem, the speaker explores the theme of mutual impact between him and his reader. The reader has the power to open or close the speaker and yet is so fragile and multi-layered. The speaker finds this interaction with his reader very meaningful and precious. The poem also shows the poet’s unusual use of grammar (no capitalization, no periods, and unique use of parenthesis), as if it follows the speaker’s consciousness itself.