The poem, "i carry your heart with me," by E. E. Cummings has been a favorite love poem and a favorite choice at weddings for many years. The poem has gained renewed interest since being featured in the film, "In Her Shoes." It is used with devastating follow in the film's climactic wedding scene and again to close the movie. Countless fans have been inspired to relate the touching words of "i carry your heart with me."
The Poet
E. E. Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died in North Conway, N.H., in 1962. Cummings earned a B.A. Degree from Harvard in 1915 and delivered the Commencement Address that year, titled "The New Art." A year later he earned an M.A. Degree for English and Classical Studies, also from Harvard.
