Carrying Hearts
We know the idea of carrying a person's heart is spoken in a figurative sense in Cumming's poem. You really can't go around carrying actual hearts. Folks tend to freak out at you. But the idea of c...
Paradoxes
Cummings loves his linguistic paradoxes. That's just to say he likes playing with words in a way that flips their meaning, according to a line's syntax. So we often hear the speaker include ideas o...
Tree Called Life
Yes, it's a romantic cliché we've probably heard a thousand times. But the one Cummings refers to is like a super tree of life, since it grows "higher than soul can hope or mind can hide." It's al...