What are the poetic devices used in the poem I Carry Your Heart?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem I Carry Your Heart?
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Alliteration: when words are used in succession, or even the first letter. “No fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want/ no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)”
Here the consonants ‘f,’ and ‘w’ have been repeated to make it alliterate.
Enjambment: A line is suddenly cut off urging the reader to quickly jump to the next line. The entire poem is filled with enjambments. “I carry your heart with me(i carry it in/my heart)i am never without it”
Parallelism: refers to using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound or meaning, sometimes even in meter. It is seen in this poem in line 8 and 9. “and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant/ and whatever a sun will always sing is you.”
Consonance: repetition of consonant sound in the same line. In the poem in the line “by only me is your doing, my darling,” the sound of ‘ing’ is repeated.
Imagery: It heightens a reader’s senses through the description of visual sights. Cummings has wonderfully created various images of nature to compare his love with. “Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud,” and “and the sky of the sky of a tree called life.”
Personification: to associate human-like qualities in an abstract or non-human object. The poet has used this device in the last line of the second stanza to attribute the sun human-like qualities by making it seem like it can sing, “and whatever a sun will always sing is you.”
Hyperbole: Figure of speech used to exaggerate something to an extreme. The poet exaggerates his love when he says he carries his lover’s heart within his.
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds. In this poem, the sound of ‘u’ is repeated in the line “no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)”.
I Carry Your Heart Summary