EE Cummings - i carry your heart
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)
Hey Mara,
ReplyDeleteYou chose a truly beautiful poem. Why do you like it?
- Sunday
I love E. E. Cummings - finally someone who understands that it is not just words and sentences that influence the meaning and the feeling of poems and writing, but punctuation as well - and once you grasp the rules of punctuation, much like the rules of language, you can break them for artistic purposes.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful poem.
-Isabelle
Mara! Is this one of the most beautiful love poems ever? Possibly! One of the most unusual? Definitely! Cummings is a genius when it comes to the manipulation of form to echo content. Can't wait to get stuck into his poetry in class.
ReplyDeleteOne I came across recently -
'while you and I
have lips and voices
which are for kissing
and to sing with,
who cares if some
one-eyed son of a bitch
invents an instrument
to measure spring with?'
ee cummings
See you soon!
Simon