CTyankee
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:05 PM
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Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! (One day late, sorry) |
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Here is one of my favorites:
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door— Red—is the Fire's common tint— But when the vivid Ore Has vanquished Flame's conditions, It quivers from the Forge Without a color, but the light Of unanointed Blaze. Least Village has its Blacksmith Whose Anvil's even ring Stands symbol for the finer Forge That soundless tugs—within— Refining these impatient Ores With Hammer, and with Blaze Until the Designated Light Repudiate the Forge—
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Mike03
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:22 PM
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Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 05:26 PM by Mike03
She is a true treasure.
I think of her suffering, and her aloneness, and can't help but wonder if many millions of Americans could relate to her if they knew more about her. Her life certainly resonates with me, in the general way that it could possibly resonate with many modern citizens in this nation tending more and more towards pressing us into isolated shells.
Thank you for your post.
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Tue Dec-11-07 07:48 PM
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6. Oh Mike, how true you are! |
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Your post was so striking to me because you found what I did in her and continue to do. I posted her poem "Dare you..." more as a "come on" to her poetry to people who had never read her before just as a way of getting them to understand her. Somamy people miss her passion!
Thanks to you for your wonderful understanding of her lovely verse!
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:23 PM
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2. Dickinson is a true American classic! |
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Really, she is one of the greatest poets! I have too many favs to pick from!
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Tue Dec-11-07 09:06 PM
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7. Here is another of mine! |
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I dwell in Possibility-- A fairer House than Prose-- More numerous of Windows-- Superior--for Doors--
Of Chambers as the Cedars-- Impregnable of Eye-- And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky--
Of Visitors--the fairest-- For Occupation--This-- The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise--
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:25 PM
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3. I'm nobody! Who are you? |
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Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
(K&R)
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:29 PM
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4. I don't think she will notice it's late. |
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Tue Dec-11-07 05:36 PM
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5. This has stuck in my mind. Don't know the source. |
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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. " Emily Dickinson
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Tue Dec-11-07 09:09 PM
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8. Lovely. I hadn't heard that one. I did a major paper on her in grad school |
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and an essay in my final project for my MA in Liberal STudies. I love encountering these quotes that I missed in my studies, because they are so wonderful
Thanks so much for it!
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