Poetic Analysis

Poetic Analysis

What Life Revolves Around
When it comes to science, everything is always revolving around something; Earth revolves around the sun, the Sun around something larger, but what about life? The introduction of emotion, especially the strongest one of all, love, has gravitated he human soul, making it revolve around love. The poems “i carry your heart with me,” by EE Cummings and “Eulalie,” by Edgar Allan Poe beautifully portray the effect of love on life. The speculation of love is paralleled in each poem, both revealing how having loved, can bring upon happiness. The very definition and depiction of love in these poems have been eulogized and revitalized by these authors; both telling a compelling tale of emotion their time had not been able to compassionately express in such magnitude.
In “i carry your heart with me,” EE Cummings talks about the power of his everlasting love through strong figurative language. The first obvious details of the poem are the lack of capitalization and syntactical punctuation. At the time this was written, an all lowercase poem was innovative, and even now it can still make the reader a bit uncomfortable to read. The title, duplicated in the first line of the poem, starts off with a metaphor, “i carry your heart with me” (1 Cummings). The person’s heart, resembling love or relationship, is being brought with the narrator of the poem. He feels his lover’s presence at all times, and continuing that sentence, “i carry it in my heart,” (1-2 Cummings) shows that he feels his lover’s poem within him. In lines 2-3 the narrator tells how he goes everywhere with his lover as well. Cummings adds a hint of parallelism in the use of the words “i go,” and “you go,” to emphasize the relationship between the lovers and their unity. The narrator stresses that idea of unity in line 3 and 4 when he say, “and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling,” (Cummings) which allows the reader to eloquently see the impact of his lover on his...

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