Write a paragraph explaining the meaning of e.e. cummings poem.
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
e. e. cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond 1
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 5
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, 10
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, 15
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 20
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The speaker begins by stating that in even in his lover's most frail gestures, she encloses him and withholds a power over him. She is capable of opening and closing him emotionally. However, the speaker is just as happy to be closed by her as he is to be opened. Everything she does amazes him and fills him with overwhelming joy and love for her. He shows this by comparing it to the opening and closing of a rose throughout the seasons. She has the power to open him up to the infinite: universe, death, and whatever may wait for them after death. He ends the poem by stating that he does not even know how she holds so much power over him, especially because of her extreme fragility and daintiness. This is emphasized when the speaker states, "(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." The speaker is completely trapped by his immense love for her, which allows her to withhold great power over him.
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