I Carry Your Heart

The poem, I Carry Your Heart by E.E. Cummings and the short story, A Cat In the Rain, were both written during the lost generation. In the poem, I Carry Your Heart, the theme is nothing can stand in the way of true love is shown throughout the poem. In the short story, A Cat In the Rain, the theme of dissatisfaction and isolation is revealed throughout the story. However, both show the theme of powerlessness. In this poem, I Carry Your Heart, by E.E. Cummings,the theme of “nothing can stand in the way of true love” is evoked throughout the poem. He constantly states throughout the poem how he is always with her in heart because he carries her heart with him wherever he goes. He says, “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) …show more content…
Cummings, uses several cases of figurative language throughout the poem to describe how madly he loves and adores his wife. This poem is rich with imagery. For example, this line here is a clear example of the imagery used in this love poem, which states “and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart.” This line leaves an indelible mark on the reader. In this line from the poem, Cummings is describing the “deep secret of true love” which leaves people feeling curious. Also, we know the idea of “carrying a person’s heart” is a example ambiguity. You can’t actually go around carrying someone else’s heart around. That would be freaky and weird. The idea of “carrying one’s heart” used in this poem describes the sense of unity he feels with the one he …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, because in both stories the main characters are both suffering from dissatisfaction and isolation. In Babylon Revisited, the main character, Charlie, suffers from dissatisfaction and isolation, because he had rough past in which he was an alcoholic and his wife died and his daughter had to live with his sister in law, Marion. Because of this rough past, Charlie has a hard time convincing Marion and her husband to let his little girl live with him because he changed and he is no longer an alcoholic like he once was but a better person who loves and cares for his daughter. Likewise, in A Cat In the Rain, the woman is also suffering from dissatisfaction and isolation, because she is upset about her hair, not being able to keep the cat, and because her vacation didn’t turn out the way she wanted it too. She and her husband are the only Americans staying in the hotel which is way she also feel isolated from people from