Titanic By Celine Dion: Song Analysis

The song, My heart will go on from the film, Titanic by Celine Dion, ties in with the book The Stone Carvers, especially with the love relationship between Klara and Eamon. This song deals with a girl who lost a loved one. This girl resembles Klara because the lyrics of this song suits Klara’s point of view very well of Eamon’s death; she is extremely upset about Eamon’s death, and in her heart, she always says “my heart will go on”, meaning how she will get over the fact that he died.
In the first verse,
Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you,
That is how I know you go on
The first sentence describes when Klara has the dream of Eamon, where she walks around the battle field and picks up his scattered bones. She literally sees and

feels different parts of his body.
Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go till we're gone
In this fourth verse, these three lines describes how Eamon courts Klara and makes her fall in love with him with the use of his literature. They fall in love and create a strong love relationship, lasting for a lifetime. The third line describes their relationship after Eamon dies; even though Eamon has died, Klara refuses to let go of him until the day she dies.
Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on

This verse is similar to the verse above; the first line is showing when the occurrence of love of Klara and Eamon first started, where it’s the “love at first sight”. The second line explains how it is the only one true love that both of them will ever hold to themselves, never letting the other partner go. Of couse, Klara still holds on to her love with Eamon after he dies, which she tries hard to “always go on”, stated on the third line, meaning to get through the grief of his death.
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

In chorus of this song, the first two lines illustrates how Klara is after she realizes the terror of permanent loss; even when Eamon is thousands of miles away from her (in war), she believes that she will somehow get over his death. Unfortunately, due to the act of suppressing her feelings, this unhealthy action results Klara in expelling all of her emotions out at once (by vomiting) and makes her worse. The next two lines explains how she tries to open up her emotions for Eamon, letting the nightmare of death seep into her mind. She believes that when does, that will be the best way to help her forget about the death of him. She does this by making another waist coat for him, putting images of a harp on the buttons of the waist coat to celebrate his Irishness.
You're here, there's nothing I fear,
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

The first two lines of this last verse describe Klara and Eamon’s relationship together, how it’s a very romantic relationship. With Eamon killed in the war, Klara tries to forget the grief of his death, but is very hard for her. The next two lines illustrates that when Klara goes to the monument in Vimy ridge to carve, she thinks that they will finally be together again (due to the fact that Eamon has no tombstone and now he has one) and “will stay forever this way”. He is now finally safe in her heart because now, she has a proper way of remembering and mourning for him (the memorial stone). The last line shows how with the memorial stone being built, now she may be able to overcome the loss of him.