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Stephen Crane 'The Heart' In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane wrote this poem in 1895, when he was 24 years old. Beginning with the first phrase the poet introduces to us a picture of loneliness, isolation, and a fear for survival. The creature, later mentioned shows living thing that is naked meaning no religion, no culture and no period of time. The heart represents the centre of our emotions, of our life and the one that keeps us alive. By eating from his heart he accepted his failures, disappointments about himself, his sins, and his life as a whole. In order to eat your heart you have to accept it. Later on when he mentions that it...

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