Ee Cummings Paradox

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E. E. Cummings "somewhere I have never travelled" this poem is about love not about obsession as they ask in question three (594).The author personifies his feeling of love. Author starts the poem by referring his inexperience with love and expressing a wonder to this new experience. Cummings expresses the paradox in almost some line and shows imagery of love in almost each line. Cumming stars, describing his emotions, and himself, as “closed... fingers" (6), trying to hide himself from the emotions saying “I have never travelled” (1).

The paradox comes up in some line of the poem like “though I have closed myself as fingers” (6). Or, “you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose”