“I Carry Your Heart With Me” is a 15-line love poem by American modernist poet E.E. Cummings. It was first published in 1952 in Poetry magazine. The poem features a lover declaring their love to their beloved and explores what it means for two people to become one through a shared heart. The poem plays with voices and grammatical conventions to create an impressionistic interpretation of being in love.
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Ranked "among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create...
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The American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) presented romantic attitudes in technically experimental verse. His poems are not only ideas but crafted physical objects which, in their nonlogica...
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Many of the Americans in Paris in the twenties may have had some occasion to encounter French law, and several even spent a few hours in jail. But few began their lives in France by being arrested and...
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E. E. Cummings's experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. He was applaude...
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Biography EssayE. E. Cummings's experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. ...
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E. E. Cummings
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