Poem Selection

somewhere i have never travelled 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring

opens

(touching skillfully, mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the colour of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

ee cummings

What I like about his poem?

I liked this poem because of it's grace and depth.

It took many re-reads to grasp a full personal understanding of the types of meanings

and feelings I thought the author wanted to portray. My take is that it is a love poem: full of communication, beauty, admiration, and heart ache. I felt that the idea of contrasting properties communicating with each other in a space to make a unified whole would be a fun idea to portray through the use of 3-D objects and form.

What is my interpretation of this poem?

I interpreted this poem as having two parties involved; there is the male personality, who presents his aching love for the beauty of the woman; and then there is the woman, who presents herself as enigmatic, beautiful, graceful, but very much unavailable. I interpreted that there is communication in the poem, but it is not a conversation. The personalities of both parties are similar, but have different meaning. They are almost dancing with one another (the ideas). 

Key ideas that I think go along with the poem:

depth, beauty, closeness, interaction

2nd poem:

We never know how high we are

We never know how high we are

Till we are called to rise;

And then, if we are true to plan,

Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite

Would be a daily thing,

Did not ourselves the cubits warp

For fear to be king.

Emily Dickinson

What I like about this poem?

I like this poem because the key words used create a good visual interpretation. It uses good elements like fear, height, potential, measurement, achievement. These are good descriptors to create a meaning of form. It's is also simple, and easy to understand, which I think would complement the use of combining simple geometric forms to create an understanding of the structure, in relation to the simplistic meaning of the poem.

What is my interpretation of this poem?

I interpreted this poem as we never know what great things we can achieve, until we put ourselves in the opportunity to achieve them, or we do not know what we are fully capable of until the opportunity presents itself. Also, If we fall in line with our God given potential, we will reach our near limits of achievement. I feel that it also wants to portray the point that: We measure ourselves because we are afraid of our potential, so we bring ourselves down.