"I Carry Your Heart With Me" by ee cummings - Recital

"I Carry Your Heart With Me"


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by 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 meant
and 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)

ee cummings

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Education

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• poetry
• prose
• letter
• long
• distance
• relationship
• love
• miss
• you
• tg+hxh
• thegrammarian

[thepoetryof]

Nine Inch Nails and E.E. Cummings. Bloody well-done.

[TheGrammarian]

@thepoetryof Thanks! =)

[someone716]

i like the girl's voice so much... the guy sounds like he's just reading it through some kind of.... well it sounds like a phone call to a radio show

[TheGrammarian]

@someone716 There were some issues with my husbands recording equipment, yeah. Glad you liked it, all the same.

[imagine9384]

You know cummings wrote this poem to his love.

Not as two people speaking to each other.

I would like to hear just you reciting this: as cummings meant it to be.

Please dont take this as criticism, I realise this is a poem special to you and your fiance.

I have listened to your other recitals and they are beautiful. Please read this one as it was meant to be read

[TheGrammarian]

You make a valid criticism. I will consider it. Thanks!

[SlurpeeQueen21]

dedicated TO JENNIFER PARATON OF WINNIPEG CANADA" I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU "REST IN PEACE"

[drunkandmisguided]

@thepoetryof

I've been reading just the funniest things on youtube today... and the rest of them I could sort of see coming and it would something I would be thinking.

But I must say that you take the cake for the most original and *funny* comment I've read all day.

Goodness, I'm not even done watching the video yet, but every time I hear the guys voice I think of Nine Inch Nails now. hahahahhahah

[Singeranja]

I dont like his way saying the words.

[Liv2DaMax]

Wonderful poem, beautifully read!

[stevensavio]

@imagine9384 Anyone is allowed their own interpretation of a poem when reciting it. It is not necessary for a speaker to recite a poem exactly the way the writer would. In fact, most people encourage others to have their own unique voice and not to mimic someone else's style / way of reciting. Please don't take this as criticism. You were right about the writers intent-- HOWEVER-- Please do not discourage people from reciting in a way that is unique and their own.

[Ellie4340]

i love this version! how can i get it? i really want to do it for my solo.