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i carry your heart with me (i carry it in. my heart)i am never without it (anywhere. i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done. by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear. no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want. no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant.
i carry your heart with me. i carry your heart with me (i carry it in. my heart) i am never without it (anywhere. i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done. by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear. no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want.
Published in 1952, “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in” is one of E. E. Cummings’s best known love poems. The speaker feels an intense connection to an unidentified lover, addressing the poem to this person and suggesting that everything in life has become infused with their romance.
“i carry your heart with me” is a traditional love sonnet written in 1952 by the distinctly nontraditional American poet E. E. Cummings. Well known for his experimentation with syntax, punctuation, and spacing, Cummings applied each these avant-garde techniques to the conventional form of the sonnet.
In short, ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in’ is a love poem in which the speaker is telling his beloved that wherever he goes, he always carries his lover’s heart with him. In the poem, the speaker is talking directly to his muse , referring to her as “my darling” and “my dear.”
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[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in] | Poetry Out Loud. Twitter. Facebook. By E. E. Cummings. i carry your heart with me (i carry it in. my heart)i am never without it (anywhere. i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done. by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear. no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want.
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My husband of 52 years has suffered two heart attacks and one heart episode. This poem spoke to me as we have lived with his condition and I feel I have carried his heart in my heart. I plan to have it read when and if he goes before me at his celebration of life.
