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Awe and Amazement
It's safe to say that the speaker is in awe of his lover and the love he carries with him. "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]" is a great example of a modern poet borrowing some of the awe and amazement the Romantics were all about and bringing that feeling up-to-date. We've still got the occasional romantic cliché, but Cummings is careful to balance the clichés with his avant-garde style.
Love is an amazing thing (as a concept anyway), so it makes sense that the speaker would see the rest of the world in such an "awesome" way.
The speaker may be amazed, but he takes his time getting there. It's not until the third stanza that we start to hear the speaker thinking in an awe-inspired way with that "tree called life."
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