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 with me(i carry it in my heart)
By E.E. Cummings
Cummings is an interesting love poet, and his unusual writing, such as missing spacing, contribute to the meaning and reading of the poem. Here, the lack of spaces before the bracketed phrases don’t seem pretentious. Instead, they imply the giddiness of love as well as the melding of two people as one. The lack of most punctuation (there are no periods, and only a few semicolons and commas) also mimic the headiness of a new romance, where everything seems to run together and all thoughts and sentences focus on the object of your affection. And hopefully the new romance won’t come to a full stop ever. And yes, even though the punctuation and the lack of capitals or full stops makes most people shudder (‘he wrote I as an i, the horror!’), the message is clear: love doesn’t need perfection, it needs to be felt with the heart.
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