E.E. Cummings is not afraid to break conventional grammar in verse. From the formatting, to the words themselves, the speaker here removes his ego and demonstrates the humbleness and submissiveness of a true, unified love.
“i carry your heart”
by E. E. Cummings
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)
Everything about this poem is excellent. While refusing to use uppercase, Cummings offers a gentle secret. He removes extra spaces within his poem to give a feeling of closeness. He avoids jarring punctuation such as periods and hyphens to create a conversational flow. His love even explores through space– my world, the moon, the sun, the sky of the sky, the wonder that separates the stars. The buck doesn’t stop here. Cummings has many more love poems just as consuming and endearing as this. If you are in search of modern love poems, E.E. Cummings delivers.