What Does I Carry Your Heart With Me Mean

In E. E. Cummings's poem " I Carry Your Heart With Me", he reveals that when one falls in love, that love is never-ending and will remain in one's heart.
In this poem, the poet writes about how love follows the poet everywhere, and the poet carries the love for another wherever he goes. By saying, " I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;" ( Cummings 2-3) it is understood that the poet carries a significant other's love with him wherever he goes. Obviously this is not physical, but it is understood from the context that the poet is referring to mentally carrying the other.when the poet writes, " I carry your heart ( I carry it in my heart)" (15) the poet holds his other in his heart, and when they are not together the feeling of love is. In the sense that they will always be together in "spirit". …show more content…
In the poem, metaphors are used to show the reader an image of the theme, love. With the choice of words, it is understood that the poet's love for another is so magnificent, and strong that it keeps the stars apart. Their love is stronger and taller than one could ever imagine and there is no way to hide it, like a tree that "grows higher than solid could hope or mind could