Letter from E. E. Cummings

Throughout E.E. Cummings lifetime, “In Cummings lifetime career he wrote about 2,900 poems.” His most famous poem is, “I Carry Your Heart With Me.” The poem, “I Carry Your Heart With Me” is about the love E.E. Cummings has for the anonymous girl he based his poem about, and how he could not let her go. Biography.org states he was very smart and went to Harvard. E.E. Cummings didn’t really write in a certain style. He had a hard time finding a publisher so he decided to self publish his poems. E.E. Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lived in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He lived up to be a prominent. “E.E. Cummings wanted to be a poet when he was a kid and he was strongly supported by his mother.” He went to Harvard University. “E. E. Cummings had and unknown and romantic outlook on life”, and he had a hard time finding a publisher.

E.E. Cummings began writing poems when he was 10 years old.” E.E. Cummings wrote about 2,900 poems lifetime. Some people that E.E. Cummings was influenced by were; Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, Amy Lowell, and Gertrude Stein. He wrote about random things like tulips and chimneys and romantic feelings etc. Since he could not find a publisher he started self-publishing for much of his career. He eventually found wide recognition. E.E. Cummings is not only a poet but a playwright, and visual artist as well. Along with capitalization, E.E. Cummings uses punctuation to add emphasis. His punctuation is used to find key concepts in his poetry, He didn’t really have a type of writing style. E.E. Cummings got awards such as Bollinger Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts for the US and Canada.

“I Carry Your Heart With Me” is considered one of the most prominent love poems of modern time. The subject of, “I Carry Your Heart With Me” is about somebody he has strong feelings for. He feels strongly for the characters in his life. The Format of this poem is a Sonnet. E.E. Cummings uses sonnets and free poetry. E.E. Cumings poem is trying to persuade the anonymous girl to stay with him a bit longer. E.E. Cummings might have had a romantic relationship and he doesn’t want her to leave him. He just expressed his feelings to the person who he likes. “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)” In this part of the poem by E.E. Cummings he expresses his love for the Anonymous girl that he wrote to. Even though E.E. Cummings wrote about 2,900 he still never had a style of writing. The poem. “I Carry Your Heart With Me” was known as one of the most romantic poems ever published up to this day. He really had love and affection for the anonymous person he was writing about. He never had a style of writing and when he wrote, he had his own way of writing with bad punctuation. Since he had bad punctuation he had to become a publisher and self-publish his own poems.