The Passionate Confessions of E. E. Cummings’ “i Carry Your Heart with Me”

The Passionate Confessions of E. E. Cummings’ “i carry your heart with me”

There’s love, passionate love, passionate confessions of love obviously declared in the poem “i carry your heart with me” by E. E. Cummings. This stunning piece has imprinted good first impression on me. I, personally, don’t usually get to get this feeling toward romance poems, because most of poems about love are shallow, predictable, and cliché. But not this. Whether I am influenced by the fame of E. E. Cummings, because as we’ve all known who he is in American literature, or this romance poem has made me starstruck by its magical words. There’s something about this poem that has moved my heart, not in a melancholy way because right after I finished reading this poem, I blushed so hard as if someone was confessing his feeling to me. There are, however, several points that have made me become so interested and curious in “i carry your heart with me”, especially in emotions and images.

In the first stanza, this beautiful poem starts with the big main confession: “i carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)”. The whole stanza (we’re going to discuss the odd usage of lowercases, punctuations, and the lack of spaces and how this usage has something to do with E. E. Cummings intentions later) is sending romantic confessions to the reader about the relationship between “i” and “you”, particularly between “i” and “you”’s heart (in this case, E. E. Cummings and the girl he loves). How E. E. Cummings and the girl’s heart are inseparable, and how he always bring her heart (which symbolizes her love and her presence) with him all the time, so that she will always be near him, and, in fact, within him (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008). In the second stanza, he stated that she is his everything, she is whatever he always wanted to have and be with; she’s the most perfect for him. With all those flattering praises about her, I don’t think that he is sweet-talking or being cheesy, because that is what he truly