somewhere I have never traveled,gladly beyond | Themes
Love
It is very clear from the beginning that this poem is a love poem about the poet’s beloved. Although the language is cryptic at first, as it is in many of cummings’s poems, in the second line of the poem he identifies the subject of the poem by saying, “your eyes have their silence.” A poet’s reference to the eyes of his beloved is an age-old tradition. The eyes are commonly thought to be the windows into a person’s soul, and much love poetry has been written about eyes. Cummings continues his profession of love and underscores the power of his beloved’s...
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