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

Since then, there have been many changes to how one goes about their feelings for another person. Back in the 1950s, most couples went through a “courting” relationship rather than a “dating” one like teenagers do today. A courting relationship is when two people are involved romantically, while having the intention of marrying each other in the future. On the other hand, dating is when two people are involved romantically together, but do not have the intention of marrying the other person at that point of time in the relationship. Although there are many differences between the two types of relationships, the couples in each, still love one another. The poem, “i carry your heart with me,” shows that the love this man has for the woman is ceaseless. Cummings writes, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it” (Cummings 1-2). When Cummings uses the parentheses in his poem, he is illustrating how he is holding her love close. The man in this relationship takes his lover’s heart with him wherever he goes. Her presence and love is always near him even if they are at two different points of their relationship. When being in a relationship there will always be a process to it. One source writes, “Love and life as a cyclical process are again emphasised by making the last line identical to the first” (Docherty). By making the two lines identical shows Cummings personal style and his

“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”.

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.

People who have been deceived or let down by those they once desired or loved, often mourn and lament their past relationships. In the poem “For That He Looked Not Upon Her,” George Gascoigne addresses the complexities of a broken relationship in his analysis of grief, the fear of being hurt emotionally again, and the captivation a woman still holds despite the misery she caused. He creates this through his tone of misery and undertones of past desires. By utilizing imagery and metaphors in the mouse, melancholy related diction, and words connoted with love, Gascoigne addresses a growth in the complex attitudes of the speakers regarding his prior adoration for a lover and current growth in the lessons of fear and doubtfulness.

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.

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.

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.

"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).

Trying to make sense of the poem resembled solving a strange puzzle or decoding a hidden message. At first glance it seemed like pure nonsense. I couldn’t find a coherent message from the poem by reading it as-written. However, a closer look reveals some patterns within the chaos. In order to understand what message, if any, Cummings had disguised in his poem, I had to figure out how all those pieces came together.

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

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.

Artists looking for the existing moment have only enlarged since the mention of his odd and delightful poems. Even if Cummings’s poetry does not satisfy a specific reader, the inspiration of Cummings on the upcoming of poetry due to his visual creativity, grasp of words, and modernization cannot be denied. It can be stated that poetry was not the same before Cummings, and is persistently altered after him. He has not been favored by critics or had them on his side, he has frequently stood the aim of tough criticism. With the surprise of his use of punctuation, critics are seeing his works and are noticing the exact significance in the poems themselves. Possibly the critics are finally beginning to give Cummings and his work a valuable

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.

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.