Poem analysis

I Carry Your Heart With Me by Edward Estlin 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)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)



This poem is a beautiful piece of literature about deep, profound love, almost unreal love. It's very easy to read the poem and understand that the writer was madly in love with someone. The imagery could possibly be the way he describes the deepest secret nobody knows as the tree called life probably referring to the tree of life who imparts eternal life, showing the reader that his love is as eternal and never dying as the tree of life. The theme as stated before is deep profound love whom Cummings felt for a loved one letting that person know how dear she was to him, the setting is not really specified but since the words "I carry it in my heart" are mentioned, you can tell that these are the words of his heart and his feelings and therefore assume that everything takes place inside Cummings' heart. As it's Edward Estlin Cummings style his poems break the rule of the metrics and the poems go their own way.