The Greatest Emotion- Somewhere I Have Never... E.E Cummings

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

This is supported through his grievous diction throughout the poem. Through words like “loving”, Gascoigne uses his word choice to craft physical descriptions of the grief created in the man. The reader is able to create a picture in their mind of a male holding his head low due to his misery. This allows the reader to understand the ways in which gloom affects his outward appearance in society. Additionally, the usage of “grievous” in describing the game of love represents the outlook he’s developed due to the emotional damage caused by broken relationships full of lies and mistakes. He has learned that following the sudden attraction towards a woman, the process of forming and maintaining a healthy relationship is a hard process without much sense. Lastly, another example of these melancholy-associated words is “bale” in the final line. The captivating eyes of the woman are representative of his initial attraction physically towards the female, but now looking into them leads to feelings of despair and misery. Through these words (“loving”, “grievous”, and “bale”), Gascoigne has represented the emotional sadness and misery due to a broken relationship and established a mournful tone to accompany the previously addressed lesson learned from being hurt from

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

For humans, procreation is how immortality can be possible, making it the second goal of love. In this realm, love is now a creator from its role of being a seeker as aforementioned in the prior paragraph. It is emphasized that this procreation is not only for offspring but of artistic words and ideas. Diotima’s interpretation of love flows from erotic love Poptsova 4 from one person to abstract love which leads to the appreciation of physical beauty.

"Though I have closed myself like fingers, you open always petal by petal myself and Spring opens…her first rose" (Line 5-7). While a flower is certainly a less durable and hearty symbol than a stone archway, the quality of love represented by it is no less valid. Cummings' other-worldly description of this subject is haunting. "Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility" (13-14). This love is surreal, cosmic, "rendering death and forever with each breathing" (16).

These characteristics combined often leave the reader feeling at a loss and not quite sure what to make of the poem. Nevertheless the message of the poem, for the reader who chooses to pursue it, is quite powerful. E.E. Cummings, the author of this poem, is not simply a poet. He also painted, wrote essays and plays, and taught as a guest professor. A student of Harvard, he in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps during the first world war, and fell in love with Paris, where his work was located.

Nevertheless, despite the connections between these works, inequality does not work in the same way for every couple. Each of the couples represented here possesses their own definition of sublime inequity, often signaled by gender differences. In “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond,” e.e. Cummings describes an infatuation so great that it renders the world topsy-turvy, making “fragility” powerful and turning the masculine into feminine. Cummings begins by suggesting that this infatuation is unfamiliar territory for his speaker, referring to it as “somewhere” he has “never travelled, gladly beyond/any experience…” (1-2). Here, new love is described as an unfamiliar place—or perhaps, a state of mind—that transcends the speaker’s previous romantic encounters. The inclusion of the word “gladly,” however, implies that the novelty of this latest affair is (at the very least) pleasurable. Reading these lines in context with the poem’s overwhelmingly romantic tone suggests that our speaker is addressing his lover (“you”) directly. Perhaps contributing to his overall state of confusion, the speaker notes: “your eyes have their silence,” implying that his lady love is more inscrutable than his previous flames (Cummings 2). Cumming’s use of “silent eyes” brings to mind images of

The poem [Since Feeling is First] by E.E Cummings, includes formal elements such as alliteration, irony, and metaphors. These elements indicate the importance of the combination of structure and imagery to express emotions to a loved one. He tries to confuse the readers by using inconsistent use of capitalization and improper punctuation to express how life can be complicated and can not be captured in writing. The tone of the speaker is romantic however, the use of literary devices makes the poem more about realization; which teaches a lesson about life and writing.

Cummings not only uses his poetry to give the reader (or in this case, listener) an image in their mind- he also provides sound, and some of his poems hardly make sense until they are read aloud-much like the visual poems, that can’t be read but instead, seen. An example of this is his poem, “in Just-” he uses pauses to show that the voice could be fading, or that by “far and wee” the voice goes farther. As you continue to read further, he combines words to make it go faster, and he uses assonance to keep the rhythm. Some parts even have made up words, and unlike the leaf poem, paints an image with the words rather than the visual aid of the poem. One word that’s made up is “puddle wonderful” and paints a picture of a muddy, but fresh scenery. Besides words that paint an image, he also uses assonance to make it rhyme- along with other auditory techniques. Referring to his next poem, “O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening” he uses “ ree ray rye roh rowster shouts rawrOO”. This shows animals, instead of using the common sounds like “meow”. You can even try making these sounds (just not in front of normal, functioning people) and it could sound better aloud than in your head. The techniques he uses include onomatopoeia and alliteration, and just as the “in Just-” poem, uses these to create beats and rhythms. Although some of these may not sounds like real words, he still uses them to express and convey the emotions of those

Technically, individuality is at the core of Cummings’ experiments with word coinings, innovations with typography, and punctuation that make Cummings’ literature, especially his poetry look and sound different 5. His extraordinary style of writing, which represents his individuality, is clearly present at “Buffalo Bill’s” and “from spiraling ecstatically this.” To understand his poetry on a deeper level it may be necessary to review each technique separately, plus look at the emotions that appear inside a reader as the poem is read.

If one is aiming to write a poem it is useful to know by detail the basic elements of poetry to understand and control better what and how to say things, they are: voice, stanza, sound patterns, figures of speech and the poetic forms.

Cummings’ poem “somewhere i have never travelled” gives insight into his feelings and personality. The poem focuses on Cummings strong desire to receive love from a woman he has been admiring, and amplifies his loneliness from being without a significant other for so long. Meanwhile, his personality influences his inability to find love all the while his lack of a romance feeds into his burgeoning awkwardness. On the other hand, if Cummings was to finally express his emotions to a woman he could come across as

Through nature, these colors bring emotions, Death brings emotions of sadness and sympathy, but beauty brings happiness and joy. Firstly, the neighbors notice that in the garden belonging to Rappaccini, on a shrub lay a cornucopia of purple flowers “Enough to illuminate the garden, even if there had been no sunshine”(Rappaccini’s Daughter, 669). The beauty in these flowers attract a flood of sunlight, because the sun (nature) sees them as beautiful. The flowers bring happiness to whomever may view them because the sun directed its own energy on them to make them more beautiful. Similarly, in the garden’s fountain water ”continued to gush and sparkle into sunbeams as cheerfully as ever”(Rappaccini’s Daughter, 669). The sun shines on the free flowing water like how Romantics view nature as free. The waters beauty becomes intensified by the beams of the sun which can bring happiness to those who view them. Thirdly, when Rappaccini’s daughter decides to visit the garden she becomes illuminated by the sun like a flower. A suitor spots her in the sunlight and much like a flower in nature would bring one happiness, she brings him happiness.

In fact, the title of the poem is “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond.” In shorter words, it is about someone who is madly, head over heals, in love. The form of this poem is loving and his diction is beautiful yet impactful. Cummings uses excellent imagery; for example, “the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.” The point of view of this poem is from the lover's perspective. He speaks of her eyes being able to “open” him. His attitude is loving and he is deeply in love with the recipient. At the beginning, it is not clear how much the recipient has impacted him. It is towards the end, mainly the final stanza in which the reader can fully

In the second stanza, the poem compares his love to a plant that does not bloom. The flowers are hidden deep within the plant. The text is expressing that while most would not appreciate a flower that does not bloom, the love described here goes far beyond that of anyone else’s. Inner beauty is admired. The narrator is not ashamed of his love. Yet, he feels as though he cannot compare her to anything of this world. He is entirely consumed by the spirit within her.