Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - meaning Summary
Intimacy Revealed by Fragility
Cummings addresses a beloved whose fragile gestures and eyes have an almost supernatural power to open and close the speaker. The poem describes intimacy as a gentle, involuntary unfolding—petal by petal—yet also as a shutting that can be beautiful and final. Fragility becomes strength: small, quiet details render the speaker vulnerable, transformed, and infused with a sense of timelessness that borders on life-and-death intensity.
Read Complete Analysessomewhere 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 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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