9. "I Have My Wife's Heart With Me All The Time". The Power Of True Love (with Martyn)

In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Martyn about [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e.e. cummings (1894–1962).

They discuss: 

• The portability of love e.e. cummings conveys in the poem 
• Otherness due to being an immigrant, or minority in a country - an experience Martyn shares with his wife.
• Being rooted in a place through one’s love & relationship.
• Assimilation & acculturation and one’s sense of self living in a foreign country.
• Cummings’s experience in WW1

On the second reading of the poem the producer adds an original musical soundtrack.  

 
Discover poetry through the heart of another…

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