Home Learning Lesson 1

This is the poem I chose:

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(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i 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 meantand 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 the 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)

The poet used hyperbole like "i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)" to show how the protagonist treats her love as everything and willing to sacrifice anything for her.

Another hyperbole like "you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you" to show just how deeply the protagonist loved and treasured his love, the whole world revolves around her and the protagonist felt too proud for his love.

And another hyperbole like "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 the soul can hope or mind can hide" to show how big and wonderful the secret is.

I like it! This is really a good beginning for my poem learning. Though I'm not yet equiped with enough knowledge to comment professionally about this piece, but I can describe my first feeling.

Firstly, I like the way it's written. With a sentence in front-something like an introduction-then there will be elaborations in a bracket about that sentence right after. Interesting.

Then I continued, as I went on in the middle stanzas, I had the feeling of something like a love letter. Beautiful sentences. Nicely exaggerated. I felt like writing this poem to one girl... provided she hasn't read this yet.

Last but not least, marvellous ending, keeping me in suspense with the exggerated but descriptive sentences, all to show one thing: I carry your heart. Nicely wrapped up, leaving the readers to wonder...