Diction and Unusual Typography in E. E. Cummings’ “[i carry your heart with me(i carry in it]” Being together with the one we love maybe is our greatest desire, but together doesn’t always mean being close physically. When we can feel the love of others, even though we are millions miles away from them, we will still feel their presence. That is a magic that only love can do to everyone who believes in it, and I believe that is what the poem [i carry your heart with me(i carry in it] is trying to say. [i carry your heart with me(i carry in it] by E. E. Cummings is a simple love poem with no abstruse diction. That is why I love this poem at the first glance. Having no ambiguous words makes this poem can be easily read, and it also makes me …show more content…
As long as he can feel the presence of his lover’s love he will not stop going or doing things. Besides that, the sentence “… (anywhere i go you go,my dear;…” also indicates Cummings never stops thinking of his lover, wherever he goes he always thinks of her. Moreover, the sentence “…and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)”, signals that his lover gives him a great influence. Everything that he does is only for her and also because of …show more content…
This is to show, every day when the sun shines, he always feels her with him. Even when the night comes, the darkness will not make him forget about his lover, because the moonlight will always guide him to her. Continue reading to the third stanza, here, I assume, Cummings is talking about the essence of love that he has been talking in the whole poem. He uses the words “roots”, and “buds” to indicate that love is the essential part of our life, buds grow into plants and plants need roots to support their life. In short, to my understanding, in this stanza Cummings wants to say that nobody knows how much he loves his lover, and how important it is to him, his love grows higher than everything that a human can imagine, beyond what people can think. The next thing that intrigues me is the unusual typography Cummings uses in this poem. The unusual typography includes the distinct line breaks, lower cased lettering, parentheses, and also no spaces after commas, semicolon and parentheses. The distinct like breaks is used to draw the readers’ intention, and in some cases, for example, in the first two lines in the second stanza, it is used for showing a kind of paradox. In the first line he states “i fear” and then he twists the meaning by adding “no fate…” in the second