Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson, b. December 10, 1830
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
"I dwell in possibility ..."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — too?
Then there 's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they 'd advertise — you know!
How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell one's name — the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!
#260, R.W. Franklin Variorum Edition
The Myth of Amherst —
Transcendentalist?
Bird — Bee — Flower — Frog —
What if Emily had a blog?
re This lonely poem
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Withdrawing more and more from the outside world, Emily began in the summer of 1858 what would be her lasting legacy. Reviewing poems she had written previously, she began making clean copies of her work, assembling carefully pieced-together manuscript books. The forty fascicles she created from 1858 through 1865 eventually held nearly eight hundred poems. No one was aware of the existence of these books until after her death. — Wikipedia
I like considering that question, what if this writer or that writer had a blog. Emily's poems would be perfect. And they do remind of yours in a way.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteWhen I started writing this blog (May 2008), I had no concept of what "type" of poem-maker I would be, except to be an experimentalist.
One of the first things I did was to get a copy of the 2182 page The Norton Anthology of Poetry — always on my desk — and perhaps a bit of Emily (pages 1110-1127) seeped in. Perhaps more than a bit.
In her poem above (#260) I love the "Dont" with the missing apostrophe and the phrase "the livelong June" — Cant beat that!