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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
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.
Just beautiful, filling my need for artistic beauty when I cannot go out to see art.
Is Heaven a physician?
They say that He can heal;
But medicine posthumous
Is unavailable.
Is Heaven an exchequer?
They speak of what we owe;
But that negotiation
I’m not a party to.
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Great poems. Just great. Where am I this fucking 21 years of my life not realizing this kind of stuff?
They say that He can heal;
But medicine posthumous
Is unavailable.
Is Heaven an exchequer?
They speak of what we owe;
But that negotiation
I’m not a party to.
-----
Great poems. Just great. Where am I this fucking 21 years of my life not realizing this kind of stuff?
i read this with warmth in my chest
i could not put it down-
these i will cherish for the rest,
with great renown
i could not put it down-
these i will cherish for the rest,
with great renown
This was for the book discussin group. I had to miss the meeting, but I was glad we read this, and all the support material I read as well.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Het duurde jaren voordat ik dit van begin tot einde heb gelezen. Als er zoveel te lezen valt is het logisch dat niet alles even goed is, maar ik mis het nu al. De kans dat ik m opnieuw ga beginnen en er weer zo lang over ga doen is groot. Want iets hebben om elke dag een beetje te lezen is een fijne gewoonte.
Als ik het op een andere manier gelezen had was het waarschijnlijk minder bijzonder voor mij geweest. Emily Dickinson is er voor me geweest door alle seizoenen goede en slechte momenten en die ervaring was 5 stars en ik ben er heel erg dankbaar voor.
Als ik het op een andere manier gelezen had was het waarschijnlijk minder bijzonder voor mij geweest. Emily Dickinson is er voor me geweest door alle seizoenen goede en slechte momenten en die ervaring was 5 stars en ik ben er heel erg dankbaar voor.
I have been reading this sporadically over the course of a few days because I realised that as much as I love poetry, I had never read anything by Emily Dickinson and whilst not every poem is my absolute favourite, I did really enjoy the majority of them.