"I Carry Your Heart With Me," A Discussion of the Poem by EE Cummings
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:47:39
E. E. Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in 1894 in Cambridge. Massachusetts. He died in North Conway. N. H. in 1962. Cummings earned a B. A degree from Harvard in 1915 and delivered the Commencement communicate that year titled "The New Art." A year later he earned an M. A degree for English and Classical Studies also from Harvard.
Cummings joined an ambulance corps with the American Red Cross in France during World War I. The French imprisoned him on suspicion of disloyalty a false accusation that put Cummings in prison for three months. He wrote the novel. The Enormous Room about his experience. Many of Cummings' writings have an anti-war message.
Cummings was a fine artist playwright and novelist. He studied art in Paris following World War I and he adopted a cubist style in his artwork. He considered himself as much a painter as a poet spending much of the day painting and much of the night writing. Cummings particularly admired the artwork of Pablo Picasso. Cummings' understanding of presentation can be seen in his use of typography to "create a picture" with words in some of his poems.
E. E. Cummings?poetry call is unique and highly visual. His typographical independence was an experiment in punctuation spelling and rule-breaking. His style forces a certain rhythm into the poem when read aloud. His language is simple and his poems change state fun and playful.
Cummings?poem. "i carry your heart with me," is about deep profound love the kind that can keep the stars apart and that can excel the soul or the mind. The poem is easily read easily spoken and easily understood by people of all ages. The poem could almost be called a sonnet. It has nearly the right number of lines in nearly the right combination. But typical of a Cummings poem it goes its own direction and does so with great cause.
The poem makes an excellent love song when set to music. The outstanding guitarist. Michael Hedges has set "i carry your heart" to music on his "Taproot" album. Hedges himself sings the bring about but the backing vocals are sung by David Crosby and Graham Nash.
i fear no fate (for you are my fate my sweet) i be 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 channelise called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or object can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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