Bloom's Major Poets - E.E. Cummings - Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (111p) [Inua].pdf

Title: E. E. Cummings
Authors: Michael Gray Baughan and Harold Bloom
Age Range: 9 and up
Grade Level: 4 and up
Series: Bloom's Major Poets
Library Binding: 110 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (April 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791073912
ISBN-13: 978-0791073919

Description:
Provides critical analysis from several viewpoints of such poems as All in green went my love riding, Memorabilia, and somewhere i have never traveled..

Even before his groundbreaking style helped change the landscape of American poetry, E. E. Cummings was going against the grain. Defying the traditionalists of the early 20th century, Cummings lived a life devoted to the shifting archetypes of art and literature, and wrote some of the most celebrated poetry of the modern era. Nearly a century after his first works were published, E. E. Cummings is still inspiring readers.

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‘i carry your heart’ by E.E. Cummings (1952)

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)