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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
This is poetry best read over the course of time. Dickinson transcends in her prose and it begs reflection and time to savour. My person favourites were those on love. There is a deep sense that she writes for herself and to understand herself, and so it feels intimate even in its flirtation with the sublime.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
was surprised given the lingering image in the collective consciousness of emily dickinson as kind of a dour proto-goth to find so much joy and wit and vivacity in her poetry! but still this didn’t really land with me outside of a few fleeting lines and images - i’m not a particularly intuitive poetry reader at the best of times and i feel like dickinson’s work is diminished a little by reading all of it in a single collection, as i did. her adherence to a certain form & style (however much her own) made it all start to blend together for me after a while, as did her refusal to venture far from the three or four topics she clearly preferred, and there’s something about the meter she employed that infused her poems (to me) with a kind of pat glibness that i suspect is not actually there but that nonetheless i could never quite manage to disabuse myself of
dark
slow-paced
Started reading, but never finished. Good poems, but I just don’t have the time to read them all.
I am trying to read a few poems every night before bed in my quest to become someone who can say, “oh yes, I’ve read all of Emily Dickinson’s poems,” while everyone else in the room rolls their eyes so aggressively at me that it’s almost audible.
Hopefully, I will complete this endeavor by the end of 2022.
Hopefully, I will complete this endeavor by the end of 2022.
reflective
slow-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced