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4.26 AVERAGE
I already knew and loved some of Emily Dickinson's poetry, but this book blew me away.
I just love the way her brain worked. My jaw dropped more than once because there were just some things I had never thought about in that perspective, and reading her thoughts made me see some things differently (particularly when it comes to nature, life, death). Perfect for an existential crisis.
This is a must-read if you're even just a tiny bit interested in Emily Dickinson's poetry. It made me love it even more and I found poems that aren't that popular but really resonated with me.
I just love the way her brain worked. My jaw dropped more than once because there were just some things I had never thought about in that perspective, and reading her thoughts made me see some things differently (particularly when it comes to nature, life, death). Perfect for an existential crisis.
This is a must-read if you're even just a tiny bit interested in Emily Dickinson's poetry. It made me love it even more and I found poems that aren't that popular but really resonated with me.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Interesting to listen to Dickinson's pietry read out loud, but I am not quite sure about the inclusion of some of her letters in a collection of poems.
Don’t get me wrong Emily has some serious poetry skills, but maybe not that catchy to my particular taste, sometimes it was a little fussy for me to read, and it took me a while to get through all of her poems. She was so sophisticated and unique for her era, even now her poetry may seem like an unmistakably touch of art.
Available for free from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242
I hadn't read many of Emily Dickinson's poems before so it's always nice to discover something new. This collection was a little frustrating because the poems are arranged by theme (e.g. Nature, Love, Time) so it got a bit repetitive reading lots of similar poems one after another.
But it's clear Emily Dickinson was a prolific poet and wrote very precise poems with almost perfect structure and metre.
A lovely little poem for bookworms:
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
I hadn't read many of Emily Dickinson's poems before so it's always nice to discover something new. This collection was a little frustrating because the poems are arranged by theme (e.g. Nature, Love, Time) so it got a bit repetitive reading lots of similar poems one after another.
But it's clear Emily Dickinson was a prolific poet and wrote very precise poems with almost perfect structure and metre.
A lovely little poem for bookworms:
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
reflective
relaxing
So many poems. Many that sound just like the next, she definitely had her style. There are also several that stand out as different. I enjoy her poems about nature the most.
While normally I would describe Emily Dickinson as my favorite poet, reading her work in this collection has put a bit of tarnish on her for me.
When taking the poems as a whole you can apply overall themes and connections that you may not have realized when reading the poems individually. Doing this has made me realize just how Christian the majority of her work is, in some places it is even anti-semitic. While there are times when she is very obviously struggling with her religion, or at least the church system, she tends to feel preachy. I know this is a product of her time, but towards the end I started to feel very uncomfortable as non-Christian reading this.
I would still highly recommend several of her poems, but read them individually, not collected like this.
When taking the poems as a whole you can apply overall themes and connections that you may not have realized when reading the poems individually. Doing this has made me realize just how Christian the majority of her work is, in some places it is even anti-semitic. While there are times when she is very obviously struggling with her religion, or at least the church system, she tends to feel preachy. I know this is a product of her time, but towards the end I started to feel very uncomfortable as non-Christian reading this.
I would still highly recommend several of her poems, but read them individually, not collected like this.