You Fit Into Me Analysis

Love is one of the most compelling and universal emotions felt by the human race. Although this feeling is common, it can be interpreted differently by us all. “I Carry Your Heart” and “You Fit Into Me” by E.E. Cummings and Margaret Atwood respectively show the various ways in which people can understand and express infatuation and passion. The title of the poem, “I Carry Your Heart”, the references the fact that love is perpetually felt. Like other emotions that may be fleeting, when love is real it is constant. In the poem, Cummings discusses this concept in the first stanza which reads,”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).” When one is in love, they see the object of their affection as the apotheosis of everything. Cummings writes in the second stanza, “i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my
Atwood uses simple imagery to explain a more intricate thought. Atwood uses the metaphor of a fish hook and it’s accompanying apparatus, the eye, to explain that her lover and she were designed for one another. The fish hook and the eye naturally latch to one another which serves to accentuates the name of the work.Without each other, these two instruments would be useless and so without her lover she would not find purpose. The second stanza uses the word open which gives a mood of openness and willingness in their relationship. However, the poem can be interrupted more somberly. The reader may understand the eye mentioned in the composition to be a literal eye and in that case, love is seen as an agonizing experience. Therefore, the second stanza also takes new meaning and it now seems as if Atwood masochistically endures and submits to the anguish that comes with being with her