Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
The power of love affects every human being, each one differently. It affects every single person on this planet. Once you fall in love, it is very hard to ever get back to the normal you. Love is complicated, it sometimes make you feel awesome and sometimes makes you feel awful. Love can make us crazy, yes really it can make us crazy. The poem “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled” is such a beautiful love poem that is full of meaning. It amazingly shows how the guy is really in love. I chose this poem among every other poem because it is just so romantic and intense. It makes you fall in love. It is very touching, it melts the heart. Moreover, what is interesting about this poem is that it does not have rhyme, but it does have structure. Also, I could notice that there was no capitalization in the whole poem. Another thing is that we do not know who the speaker is, but it might or might not be Cummings. Whoever it is, it does not matter because we already feel what he is feeling. He is completely and totally in love. We know this because he talks about it in every single line of the poem. we see love through out the whole poem. So, this poem details the great, intense feeling of love that the speaker has for his beloved one. This poem is composed of five stanzas, you can see love and too much love in each one of them. In the first stanza of his poem, he talks about his feelings for his beloved. Also, we see that his beloved affects him
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This is an example of astonishing imagery where the detail overflows the imagination. You feel immersed as you read the poem. The imagery portrayed in this poem adds a depth that you wouldn't be able to feel if you didn't get the provided
As the tone of the speaker becomes more passionate with the connection of the tree throughout the poem, it is evident that this poem shows the related emptiness in the heart but a mind filled with memories, of their loved and recently
Imagery and tone plays a huge role for the author in this poem. It’s in every stanza and line in this poem. The tone is very passionate, joyful and tranquil.
He gives love the trait of flying. He passionately tells the reader that he prefers to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
In this stimulating poem, Big Rube emphasizes the characteristics of love and deceit by using examples of figurative language. He uses similes, metaphors, and personification to portray the gifts and wounds of love.
The love is categorized as a deeming and damning affection therefore mastering the hardship of what love is or is perceived to be. Looking at the first stanza, one is able to notice that it starts off very romantically. In line 1 the poet, Cynthia Zarin, refers to her man as ‘My heart’ and ‘my dove’. ‘My heart’ indicates how much the poet’s lover means to her as a heart is sustenance for life. The poet also makes it clear that the love is pure in line 1 by referring to her lover as
I am writing to you as a sophomore at the Urban School of San Francisco which is located right in the Haight/Ashbury neighborhood, famous for the Summer of Love which I’ve noticed you mentioned in some of your poems including “Staff SGT. Metz”. I have lived all my (short) life in San Francisco which has both been interesting and felt claustrophobic at times.
Before I found your poems, I wasn’t so into poetry in generally didn’t enjoy writing poems.
When the man arrives at home from the hospital, he begins to remember that “this is his house” (Cherry 15). In the poem, “Alzheimer’s,” Kelly Cherry expresses the confusions and difficulties a man with dementia struggles with in life. The poem explores the chaos of the man who comes home from the hospital and his conflicts with his memory loss. The speaker is close to the man and is frustrated with him at the beginning of the poem, but the speaker’s feeling toward the man eventually shifts to sadness. Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease can be painful and heartbreaking, though people need to understand that familiar circumstances and with family support can help the patients whose mind is gradually changing.
The lyrical style of each these poems, along with their subject matter, help to suggest that in the midst of the suppression of our natural human rights (as suggested by philosophers like John Locke), we are to make our “song” known by practicing love in both our lives and the rest
Note the sentence structure he uses, the word choice he uses. As poetic it is, it is still of human. It is of a man that has life worth living. He values himself and feels he is significant enough to explain his situation. He is using full sentences.
These two sentences show that she loves her husband with all her love and he loves her very much and she says that even if there was a man who could love her more she wouldn’t give him up. Also in the poem “ To my loving husband and loving Husband” she
It’s said that Thomas was an alcoholic and it was deemed that the cause of his death was because of the obsession and also it was accentuated with the grief he felt for his father approaching death. The form of the poem is elegy whereby Thomas used the poem by expressing his grief for his father’s impending death. It is vital to know the poet state of mind in order to relate or understand the poem. Therefore, descriptive language used by the poet should be focused to further know the poet’s is trying to impose.
Poems are short meaningful pieces of literature that can be interpreted in multiple ways depending upon the reader at hand. That is what makes a poem unique compared to other literature pieces because in a poem the author tends to use figurative language to fulfill meaning behind their work. One poem “Love is a Sickness Full of Woes” by Samuel Daniel describes the pains of being lovesick. Love can either benefit us if nurtured and cared for, but if not tended to then let loose can ultimately hurt us. As to another poem “American Solitude” by Grace Schulman describes a life of solitude being most warming to the soul to ward off loneliness.
Love can exist as affection, infatuation, obsession, pleasure and in many other ways, as love is abstract. Hence, there is no one single interpretation of love. Love is a theme that has been embedded into language and literature over the centuries, yet due to the ever changing perception of love people continue to search for a universal definition of love. Poems are able to showcase the inner feelings and desires of a poet as well as their own unique views on love. Nevertheless, through poems “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe, “The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!”
In my opinion, this poem talks about the enlighten road that humans would feel when they explore a new idea of living, it’s not necessary to be about the other life after death. It depends about how people see their lives. In this essay, I will explain the imageries that this poem states and what are the hidden messages that the writer is trying to make the reader feel and explore.
This spiritual poem is a metaphor of the events in the funeral that shows another face of death which it is another image of transformation, that led to positive
