somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: e. e. cummings
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Nature, Emotions, Flowers, Women, Senses or sensation, Gardens or gardening
The Poem
The poem “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond” first appeared in E. E. Cummings’s W: Seventy New Poems, a collection of seventy poems. It is poem 57 in a section often labeled “Poems in Praise of Love and Lovers.” While the first thirty-five poems in the collection emphasize the author’s low estimate of humans as social animals, the final half stresses a positive view of humankind based on individual love and on the bonding created by relationships.
The poem is an interior monologue using Cummings’s lyric and mythic style. Using...
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