Love By Billy Collins Summary
The title of this poem suggests that this person will always have the heart of the person they love. The person could actually be holding their lover’s heart, or a locket or other heart-shaped object belonging their loved one. Figuratively, the person does not actually carry around their lover’s heart, but rather that the person will always be loved, cherished, and remembered by the speaker, no matter where their loved one is. In the first stanza, I think it means that he is always with his lover because he is always thinking about them. No matter where he goes, his lover will be there with him. It is like he is holding his lover in his heart, so therefore they will never be apart. In the second stanza, he at first says that he will never be afraid of anything so long as he is with his lover, that his lover will always, keep him safe. He then says that he doesn’t want anything more in life because he already has everything he needs. He is perfectly happy and content with having just his lover and nothing else. In the third stanza, he’s basically saying that this poem is a secret. He says that nobody knows and will never know how much he loves this other person. In the fourth stanza, he wraps the poem up by reminding his lover that they
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Most people think of the heart as a representation of love. During the poem he talks about how he carries the heart of his lover with him wherever he goes. I think that he’s talking about always having the other person’s love with him no matter where he is. In the poem, to describe how deeply the man feels about this other person, the author uses a lot of figurative language. He uses a metaphor when he says the tree called life, because he is trying to say that life is a tree, which it’s not. He uses symbolism when he says I carry your heart, because you can’t actually carry someone’s heart around with you, he is actually carrying their
Most people think of the heart as a representation of love. During the poem he talks about how he carries the heart of his lover with him wherever he goes. I think that he’s talking about always having the other person’s love with him no matter where he is. In the poem, to describe how deeply the man feels about this other person, the author uses a lot of figurative language. He uses a metaphor when he says the tree called life, because he is trying to say that life is a tree, which it’s not. He uses symbolism when he says I carry your heart, because you can’t actually carry someone’s heart around with you, he is actually carrying their