About this title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death: She is now considered one of America's greatest poets. ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Classics
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780812523386ISBN:0812523385
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate wear on Cover Interior Pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 79 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780812523386ISBN:0812523385
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
"This book truely shows some of Emily Dickinson's best work. Its shows her feelings about life, death, nature, love, and time. Her poems make you think about the subjects. She also relates them to her life as if to make readers also have a text to self connection. Although her poems were left unpublished when she died she would've probably wanted the world to know about how she felt about life. She uses really strong and intellectual words. I believe that emily dickinson is one of the best poets of her time along with Edgar Allen Poe."
"Isn't interesting how the "poetry of old" tends toward rhyme - and I'm not only thinking of Dickinson here, but her contemporaries too: Charlotte Mew and Sara Teasdale. To some extent the rhyme and rhythm overtakes the poems and instead of actually looking at the words to see what the poem is saying, you're trying to sing along and move onto the next song. Having said that, Dickinson uses some beautiful images, e.g. turning raindrops into pearl necklaces (page 38) and the leaves that "unhook themselves from trees" (page 39) during a thunderstorm. The most beautiful poem in this volume comes from page 15, "Memorials". Here are the last two stanzas:
A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him, - At rest his fingers are.
Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Oblitirate the etchings Too costly for repairs."
"Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning's flagons up And say how many Dew, Tell me how far the morning leaps- Tell me what time the weaver sleeps Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be In the new Robin's ecstasy Among astonished boughs- How many trips the Tortoise makes- How many cups the Bee partakes, The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, who laid the Rainbow's piers, Also, who leads the docile spheres By withes of supple blue? Whose fingers string the stalactite- Who counts the wampum of the night To see that none is due?
Who built this little Alban House And shut the windows down so close My spirit cannot see? Who'll let me out some gala day With implements to fly away, Passing Pomposity?""
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