"somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond", E.E. Cummings

1) THE POEM

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2) VOCABULARY 

16. rendering: an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction

3) ANALYSIS

(a) This poem is about a relationship that is built around carefulness and love between two people. It is about the fragility of the way a person in love treats the person that they are in love with. The poem demonstrates the the way that these two people care for and respond to one another.

(b) The theme of this poem is how loving someone can affect the things you do and how you feel. The speaker of this poem is willing to do anything that the person he loves wants him to do, because of how much he loves them. The speaker says how "if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly", meaning that however this person wants him to seem, he will immediately make himself that way, just to make the person happy. The speaker compares the person he loves to nature many times throughout the poem, saying how they are as gentle, small, and fragile as different elements of nature. The speaker refers to Spring in the line "you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose". This line infers that the person he loves makes him feel re-born and new again when he's around them. The poem is about not only love, but new beginnings. These beginnings are, for the speaker, being brought upon by his lover. The speaker feels adoration towards how fragile his lover is and says, in the last line, that the way they act is incomparable to anything else.

4) PERSONAL CONNECTION

I connected to this poem not because of any personal experience I have had, but more from observing different relationships that I have been surrounded by before. The poem reminds me of how I've seen two people act with each other when they are in love. The carefulness of a relationship can be observed in the simplest of actions. On a more personal level, I relate to the sense of someone make you feel new again. Different experiences can make you feel alive in a way that you hadn't felt before, and while it may not be a lover that makes you feel this way-- it could very well just be a good friend-- it still makes you feel strong and fresh again. The language of this poem makes me not only connect to it, but also love it, and want to read it over and over again.