Saturday, October 29, 2011

somewhere i have never travelled

The poem, “Somewhere I have never traveled”, is about a man who is expressing his love for a woman.  Cummings used lots of imagery in this poem.  When he says “your eyes have their silence,” we imagine that he cannot read how she feels about him.  She is a mystery to him.  Perhaps he means her eyes and feelings are somewhere he has never traveled.  In the second stanza when he says “your slightest look easily will unclose me” means that all she has to do is look at him and he will open up his feelings to her.  Again he is using imagery to get us to feel what he feels.  In the poem Cummings is describing how he wants to know what his lover is feeling.  He tries to read her feelings through her eyes and her actions but she is still a mystery to him.  He describes how she can open and close his feelings with a glance, and he hopes that her feelings are the same as his.  In the last stanza he wants his lover to know that she has power over him and when he says, “the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses” he expresses just how much she means to him.  He uses imagery throughout the poem which helps interprets his feelings in a meaningful way.  We feel the emotion he has for the women and know how much he must love her.

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