E. E. Cummings: Poems

Would analyzing poem by E.E Cumming "Somewhere I've never travelled" Tell me how I did

Cummings poem “Somewhere I have Never Travelled” was very intriguing. When you see the title of this poem, we assume that the author speaks of the narrator being a woman, about her beauty that he admires. He expresses his emotions by saying” your eyes have their silence”. The Point of View here would be that the narrator stares at something or someone of natural beauty to him. He notices that she’s too far away from him to touch her silky smooth cheeks or stroke her face gently. He tries to reach for her, but his arms are not long enough to embrace her. When we express ourselves to someone, we find other ways to shower the person we love with flowers, candy or jewelry. Here the narrator has his way of expressing his love to petals. In my mind petals are either roses that have been withered or pulled apart to signify a trail for her to find him. He says “you open always petal by petal”. He explains how he opens his heart to her about the love he has for her. His heart bleeds for her dying love. He continues to speak on his love for her, by, saying how his heart will be broken if she doesn’t allow herself to open up to him. Claiming what he feels belong to him, and if he can’t have it, it would just kill him alive. He says “death and forever with each breathing’. Here implies that as long as he lives, he will always love her until life permits him not to. The narrator speaks with emotions of love, not wanting to let go on how he feels, but to come closer with the one he loves the most. The rain signifies tears of love and how he deeply he feels about her. His heart aches of agony and pain for something he so badly wants. He has never experience this type of love before in his life. Cummings compares the woman, that he is so deeply passionate for, to a garden of flowers or roses. He feels that she’s very exotic, and beautiful like flowers, which come in different colors and wonderful scent of fragrances.

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