"I carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME

By Carla, Irene & Silvia

Table of contents: 1.Introduction ……………………………… 2 2.Our poems……………………………….. 3 a. Carla ………………………….. 3 i.

Haiku

ii.

Acrostic

iii.

Calligram

iv.

Dada Poem

b. Silvia…………………………… 7 i.

Haiku

ii.

Acrostic

iii.

Calligram

iv.

Dada Poem

c. Irene……………………………. 12 i.

Haiku

ii.

Acrostic

iii.

Calligram

iv.

Dada Poem

3.Author’s information……………………….. 17 4.Poem Analysis……………………………… 18 5.Conclusion………………………………….. 20 6.Bibliography…………………………………. 23

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INTRODUCTION We have chosen this poem because we think it’s a good one to work with and it can be interpreted in different​s ways, and so we have different opinions. We were in two minds between two poems: “When you are old” and “If you forget me”, but finally we decided to work with “I carry your heart with me”, because for us, this poem was more interesting due to the clarifications between brackets and, for that, we thought that this poem was special and different.

We think that the main objective of this project is to learn to read poetry and to learn how to write some poems. We also think that this project tries to improve our creativity. In our opinion, the project has other objectives but with less importance, as for example to make us understand that everybody can write a poem or to teach us that there can be small details in the poem that you can see if you only read it more than once.

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OUR POEMS A) CARLA ​HAIKU

I love you soo much Mom, I never forget you You don’t forget me

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ACROSTIC M​aybe you can't hear me but...

U​sually, I listen to you to escape from the world S​ometimes you make me float I​nside me, you explode like a bomb C​ontain me, help me…

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CALLIGRAM

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DADA POEM

Carla & Juliรกn

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B) SILVIA HAIKU Lonely Darkness in your mind you don’t have anybody, only loneliness

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ACROSTIC B​eautiful but different L​ike your mind sometimes is A​nd maybe not very happy C​olour of mourning and also a K​ind of discriminated people

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C​an you hear that?

L​ight sound O​bey the time C​alm tictac of the clock K​ey of speed

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CALLIGRAM

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DADA POEM

Silvia & Sara

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C) IRENE HAIKU Hope the day ends soon I can’t survive if I stay He will come home now

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All day missing you giving hope to see you soon can't wait to hug you

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ACROSTIC

F​ight E​very day M​other and grandmother I ​will fight for you N​othing is going to stop me I ​will survive S​top killing us T​hank you

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CALLIGRAM

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DADA POEM

Irene & Carmen

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AUTHOR’S INFORMATION The poem’s author is E.E.Cummings. He ​was born ​on October 14, 1894,

in Massachusetts. ​Cummings died in 1962, he was an essayist, dramatist, painter and poet. He was an American writer. He is known for his poems which break the normal structure of the poems, for example using capital letters and punctuation not in the right way. Rebecca Haswell Clarke and Edward Cummings are Cummings’ parents.

This poem is one of the favourites to be recited at weddings, due to its description of a deep and profound love. Cummings’ poems were about war, death, and sex appeal, but his favorite was love. Cummings has been called one of the best love poets of his time. Cummings wrote a lot of sonnets.

Other Cummings’ poems are “If”, “My Love” and “Listen”.

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POEM ANALISYS We all think that this poem is about love. The first time we read this poem we thought that it was a declaration of love, and when you start to read the poem you can see that it is written by a boy who is in love with a girl, but then you realize that it is not a “happy poem”, because when we read all the poem we understand that the girl died, she moves to another city or the couple broke their relationship and he is telling what he continues feeling for her.

The poem makes us feel affection and sadness, because we think that it is beautiful because the boy is in love, but it also makes us feel sadness because the girl probably broke with the boy, or died…

In this poem there is a phrase which is special for us: “(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)” ​we think it means that everything in life leads to something, every step in your life is a branch of the tree called life, a metaphoric but infinite tree.

We think that in this poem the author expresses a real situation which happened in the author’s real life. Maybe he is trying to console himself by writing this poem.

We also think that, perhaps, this poem isn’t to a girl who broke his heart.

Possibly ​the poem is about his mother. We think that because his mother died in 1947 and this poem was published in 1952.

We don’t know the exact meaning of the poem but we are sure that it’s something connected with his real life because we think the poem is very well written to be only a poem, without a real situation behind to write about, and in the poem there is also a metaphor of life,as we explained before.

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I carry your heart with me 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) U 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)

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CONCLUSION -SILVIA: This project didn’t like me, it was entertaining but for me it was very short. Maybe I didn’t like it because I don’t like poetry. I also think that this project should have more obligatory points to work with, for example, It’s right that not all the projects are good or funny to me, However I think it was good to work with poems because I could see that I don’t like very much working with poetry and analyzing it.

My favorite part of the project was writing my own poems.

-IRENE: I didn’t like this project so much because I feel that it is short of content, possibly because it was a short project and because it hasn’t enough points to analyze and to talk about. As for example, in the project of cinema we had to analyze more characters, and we could talk about the director and the author of the book. As well as I liked the group I worked with because I think that each of us have something interesting to contribute with and different but equal opinions, and I think that it is a good mixture for this project.

I liked to get to know Edward Estlin Cummings.

-CARLA: In my opinion, the work was interesting and different from the others, because I had ​never worked with English poems. I didn’t like too much, because it was a bit boring for me. In general, I like the group I worked with; and I like the poem that we chose. In comparison with other projects, as for example the project of cinema, because for me it’s more interesting and funny than this, I didn’t like it, because I don’t like poetry, but I thought that the project would be worse.

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OUR CREATIONS -SILVIA

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-CARLA

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-IRENE

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CHARACTERS

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