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E. E. Cummings. 1894 –. 1962. 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,
- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain...
- Little Tree
little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little...
- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
With the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands," Cummings expresses that only she can get to his heart and can do so more easily than the rain reaches a closed flower bud. Further ...
One of the most evident characteristics of the poetry of e. e. cummings is precisely that he faced and celebrated, with particular courage, the beauty of the world. Edward Estlin Cummings knew from childhood that he wanted to be a poet, and between the ages of eight and 22, he wrote a poem every day. When the time came to fight in World War I ...
By E. E. Cummings. 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,
rain is so small that it can open the tiniest seed, the smallest molecule, the coldest heart, but her hands are even smaller, even more skilled, and can reach into his soul where not even rain can enter, where no one has been, not even ee the poet, and pull out from him the warmest love, and the strongest of feelings, the happiest of love, and one would suppose the most evil as well, if it’s ...
Stanza One. In the first stanza of ‘somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond’, the speaker begins by describing an experience he has never had. While he might not have the words to describe exactly what this experience is, he has an idea. It is something “glad,” or that he is pleased to dwell on. Additionally, if he were to ...
Line 1: “somewhere i have never travelled”. Line 2: “your eyes have their silence”. Lines 3-4: “in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, / or which i cannot touch because they are too near”. Line 5: “your slightest look easily will unclose me”. Line 7: “you open always petal by petal myself”.
