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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.
This intense and intimate love is the ultimate mystery, transcending understanding and elevating the speaker's existence. This poem differs from the author's other works in its straightforward and unadorned language, contrasting with the fragmented and experimental style common in cummings' poetry.
By E.E. Cummings. One of cummings’ seminal pieces. It is also one of the greatest love poems ever written, with its beautiful refrain. It isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, this is simply a person telling another person how much they care and it’s done in a timelessly beautiful way. Read Poem. PDF Guide.
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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.
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[i Carry Your Heart With Me (i Carry It In] By E.E. Cummings more 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. no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
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“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.
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.
