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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
I love Emily Dickinson's poems, but this is a poor edition. It removes all of the dashes and capitalizations that are critical to her poems. Read Emily - but read Another version!
my becoming-a-genius project, part 24!
the background:
i have decided to become a genius.
to accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collected stories of various authors, reading + reviewing 1 story every day until i get bored / lose every single follower / am struck down by a vengeful deity.
i fully believe that when i get around to finishing this, i will transcend all known limits of humanity and finally become the most insufferable person in history.
but also, this is 700 pages' worth of poems - 1,775 of them, to be exact - that are not divided in any way. not sure how i'm going to take this project on, but i don't have any other options.
literally. i ran out of all my other short story collections.
let's see what happens, i guess.
PROJECT 1: THE COMPLETE STORIES BY FLANNERY O'CONNOR
PROJECT 2: HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
PROJECT 3: 18 BEST STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
PROJECT 4: THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES BY SHIRLEY JACKSON
PROJECT 5: HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH? BY N.K. JEMISIN
PROJECT 6: THE SHORT STORIES OF OSCAR WILDE
PROJECT 7: THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK BY ANDREW LANG
PROJECT 8: GRAND UNION: STORIES BY ZADIE SMITH
PROJECT 9: THE BEST OF ROALD DAHL
PROJECT 10: LOVE AND FREINDSHIP BY JANE AUSTEN
PROJECT 11: HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
PROJECT 12: BAD FEMINIST BY ROXANE GAY
PROJECT 12.5: DIFFICULT WOMEN BY ROXANE GAY
PROJECT 13: THE SHORT NOVELS OF JOHN STEINBECK
PROJECT 14: FIRST PERSON SINGULAR BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
PROJECT 15: THE ORIGINAL FOLK AND FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
PROJECT 16: A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN BY LUCIA BERLIN
PROJECT 17: SELECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK
PROJECT 18: HIGH LONESOME: SELECTED STORIES BY JOYCE CAROL OATES
PROJECT 19: THE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV
PROJECT 20: COLLECTED STORIES OF COLETTE
PROJECT 21: JABBERWOCKY AND OTHER NONSENSE: COLLECTED POEMS BY LEWIS CARROLL
PROJECT 22: COLLECTED STORIES BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
PROJECT 23: THE METAMORPHOSIS & OTHER STORIES BY FRANZ KAFKA
PROJECT 24: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
POEMS 1-50
if i read 50 poems a day, this will take me 36 days to finish.
there is no earthly way i will read 50 poems a day, but some of these are like 4 lines long, so it's not AS crazy as it sounds.
i would place considerable odds on the chances that i drop this down to 25 a day so fast it's like this never happened, but why not start off on a high note.
i'm not going to rate these together because i've grouped them arbitrarily, but i will put my favorite of each day and post it on my instagram story! i'm @emmareadstoomuch if you want to see em.
favorite: 41
POEMS 51-100
in many ways, this collection thus far is like a prank on me, because i keep thinking there are poems about sad girls or death or heartbreak and then in the last line they reveal themselves to be about sailing.
it's a good joke...a great joke even...
favorite: 57
POEMS 101-150
lotta roses and daisies happening here.
but that's good with me - i'm a girl who reads poetry and therefore i like flowers.
will take em any day over sh*t about ships.
also, will probably be taking a 6 day break from this, because i'm going on vacation and ain't no way i'm hauling an 800 page hardcover with me.
favorite: 111
POEMS 151-175
it was more like a 10 day break, to share my truth with you.
"A sailor's business is the shore! / A soldier's - balls! Who asketh more" lol.
cutting down to 25 poems, at least for now, due to sheer laziness and overbooked time!! (pun semi-intended.) my fav of this set is perfect for today, when i am returning from a sea- and river-filled vacation.
favorite: 162
POEMS 176-200
might stick around in this 25-a-day zone. way more sustainable. also cramming 50 emily dickinson works into one measly 24 hour period seems unlawful.
i'm not saying 190 is about hooking up with an ex but...i'm not NOT saying that.
favorite: 191
POEMS 201-225
in 215, emily asks an eternal question - "do they 'hoe'" in paradise?
favorite: 211
POEMS 226-250
get you a gf who will "harass God / Until he let you in!" to heaven. no capitalization on he, even. italicized threat for increased seriousness.
badass as hell.
favorite: 232 & 241
POEMS 251-275
wowww, hope is the thing with feathers day! all star lineup.
i like the dark stuff though. i'm edgy.
favorite: 255
POEMS 276-300
i do love that Nobody.
favorite: 288
POEMS 301-325
it is becoming clear to me that my edition has different numbers than others.
uh oh.
favorite: 301
POEMS 326-350
i think with this one i'm going to be realistic about the days. i'm not going to try to catch up. it takes however long it takes.
i mean, there's no hell like forcing yourself to read poetry when you don't feel like it.
favorite: 347
POEMS 351-375
you've heard of first is the worst, now get ready for...first is the best.
favorite: 351
POEMS 376-400
having a no-brain-cells day.
favorite: 392
POEMS 401-425
well, it's been...8 months?
i'm judging by the instagram story highlight i used to post my favorites in.
anyway, hi. i paused this installment, then i finished all my short story collections again, so here we are. stubbornly. rested and rejuvenated. ready and able to read 25 poems a day for the next 50 consecutive days, i pray.
favorite: 405
POEMS 426-450
today picking this up feels like an act of courage.
favorite: 447
POEMS 451-475
well, after an incredibly brave and impressive 2 days i paused this again to wait for the new year. which it now is. happy 2023!
biiiig death day.
favorite: 465
POEMS 476-500
i wish emily dickinson wrote novels. it's almost like she wasn't writing for a random 25 year old reader 150 years in the future.
favorite: 499
POEMS 501-525
choosing to accept that the days of this project will rarely if ever be consecutive.
i really enjoyed doing this today!! and not just because there was a sexy love poem in this 25. although that didn't hurt.
favorite: 506
POEMS 526-550
uh oh...had fun with this again today...with every passing year i grow more and more afraid i may find myself a Poetry Girl...
favorite: 536
POEMS 551-575
crisis averted. today's another couldn't emily dickinson just have written em dash-laden books instead day.
favorite: 561
POEMS 576-600
do you know the physical toll 25 poems a day can have on a person...
just kidding. i read these out loud to myself like i'm having a whimsical breakdown (which, maybe) and have a jolly old time.
favorite: 581, 584
POEMS 601-625
my New & Updated Poetry Strategy is that i only pick up this book when i feel like it, and not on a daily basis.
in other words it's been 5 days and that pause ended in another 2-favorite day. everything i do is right.
favorite: 613, 624
POEMS 626-650
just realized i totally forgot about the "share your daily favorite on your instagram story, emma, for the love of god" part of this project. does anyone care if i do that? if an arbitrary promise collapses in a digital forest, but no one is around to hear it, can i just move on like nothing happened?
anyway.
favorite: 629
POEMS 651-675
on my third consecutive day. is there anything i can't do.
favorite: 657, 661
POEMS 676-700
file four consecutive days under things i can't do.
found today's selection to be mercifully short but dreadfully meh.
favorite: 686
POEMS 701-725
i was going to say same as yesterday, but then we had a visit from a celebrity.
HAPPY BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH DAY TO ALL ACKNOWLEDGERS!
favorite: 712
POEMS 726-750
this day had poems about how being a wife sucks AND poems about how sexy the moon is. a win.
favorite: 732
POEMS 751-775
couldn't possibly guess how many days it's been since i picked this one up. spiritually a hundred years, literally probably less than a week.
not my best day.
favorite: 774
POEMS 776-800
can you believe we're not even halfway.
i can't. in fact legally i don't let myself think about it.
favorite: 777
POEMS 801-825
one of those I'm Making Up A Favorite days.
favorite: 821
POEMS 826-850
emily dickinson knew about trinket girls a million years before twitter even existed.
favorite: 841
POEMS 851-875
today's selection really aligning with my mood and general vibe today. (today's aesthetic is existential dread and a waning will to live.)
favorite: 853, 869
POEMS 876-900
feeling pretty obsessed with a poem about birds eating worms after rain right now.
favorite: 885
POEMS: 901-925
gotta love today's set. approximately 100 poems about death and hopelessness and then boom, my life is worth it if i've eased one bird's existence.
favorite: 913
POEMS: 926-950
lots of poems about being mentally ill today. also one about being best friends with the stars as a concept. big fan.
favorite: 932
POEMS: 951-975
i love this collection because there will be 40 gorgeous poems about life's biggest subjects - mortality, love, faith - and then tucked between them a perfect little capturing of the smallest moment. like this one about the feeling of walking alone down a street and seeing a slice of someone else's warm and crowded night as a door opens and shuts.
favorite: 953
POEMS: 976-1000
can you believe it - we've hit triple digits! now no one check how close i am to the character count versus how far we have left to go. i'm warning you now it doesn't add up and will only alarm the crowd.
favorite: 985
POEMS 1001-1025
a short day just when i needed her. including a 4-line poem that is literally nothing but a sick burn.
favorite: 1006
POEMS 1026-1050
some days it's like...do you guys even know how brave i'm being by picking this up. and then some days you get a poem directed to bees from a fly.
favorite: 1035
POEMS 1051-1075
i think the first and last poems may have been my favorites...which makes me concerned i just wasn't paying that much attention.
favorite: 1075
POEMS 1076-1100
reaching a new 100 level feels less special now that we're over 1000.
favorite: 1090
POEMS 1101-1125
the girl loves bees.
favorite: 1106, 1116
POEMS 1126-1150
the 3 brain cells i appear to remain in possession of struggled with this one today.
favorite: 1136, 1140
POEMS 1151-1175
you know that feeling when you're fighting off the beginning of a cold and you feel groggy and congested and bleh? it doesn't work well with poetry reading.
favorite: 1165
POEMS 1176-1200
another making up a favorite day.
favorite: 1198
POEMS 1201-1225
there is a poem about march today! and it is march right now! sign from the universe. i have no choice but to enjoy this set.
favorite: 1220
POEMS 1226-1250
emily, you saucy little minx...you knew i hadn't picked this book up in seemingly one or two centuries and you made today a back-to-back favorite day...
favorite: 1232, 1233
POEMS 1251-1275
fall poem fall poem fall poem!!!
favorite: 1271
POEMS 1276-1300
i love short novels. i love short stories. i love short poems. either i'm lazy or i have a predilection. or both.
favorite: 1287
POEMS 1301-1325
love poem to the month of march!!! spring poem i'm reading on the first full day of spring!!! crazy how this book was randomly assembled out of old papers and all of it was for me.
favorite: 310
POEMS 1326-1350
emily dickinson is an astrology girl reveal!!
favorite: 1338
POEMS 1351-1375
the rare I Can't Remember The Last Time I Picked This Up day x Making Up A Favorite day combo.
favorite: 1367
POEMS 1376-1400
leaning way too hard on a smallish poem about inexplicable joy and the corresponding desolation today, when i am like kinda sick and being super dramatic about it.
favorite: 1382
POEMS 1401-1450
it feels like lately i do one day per week of this project, so i'm doing a 50-poem day. to atone. and of course it was lovely and fun because the universe adores me.
favorite: 1420
POEMS 1451-1500
double day so nice i did it twice.
"The Booty and the Sorrow / Its Sweetness to have known"...lol.
favorite: 1465
POEMS 1501-1525
there is no joy quite like reading an emily dickinson spring poem on the first truly warm day of the season.
favorite: 1519
POEMS 1526-1550
see yesterday's note. i feel like if this collection was just 1700 stanzas of emily dickinson defining words and describing seasons, i'd be happy.
favorite: 1530
POEMS 1551-1575
a lovely little poem about a woman that hastily throws the word friend in at the end...i see you, emily.
favorite: 1568
POEMS 1576-1600
back to back short ones, one describing night as a gift and the other involving cake...bliss.
favorites: 1577, 1578
POEMS 1601-1625
bunch of pretty dawn ones today. not emily dickinson getting me fully back on board just before the end of this project!
favorite: 1618
POEMS 1626-1650
it's another make-up-a-favorite-at-the-literal-last-minute day, which is a long way of saying a monday.
favorite: 1650
POEMS 1651-1675
perfect little poem about occupied minds being like occupied houses...we're so back.
favorite: 1653
POEMS 1676-1700
no brain cell days are not conducive to this project. or is it vice versa? i don't know my mind is a mound of soggy cotton balls at this juncture.
favorite: 1682
POEMS 1701-1725
sapphic sapphic sapphic sapphic sapphic
favorite: 1722
POEMS 1726-1750
PENULTIMATE DAY. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. DO I JUST FINISH NOW?! I NEVER THOUGHT THIS TIME WOULD COME, I'M FREAKING OUT.
lovely little lines for this almost-goodbye: "Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell."
and a death of childhood poem...we're playing the classics now.
favorite: 1738
POEMS 1751-1775
let's finish this!
favorite: 1774
OVERALL
this project was absolutely ridiculous, and it took me 3 months, and more often than not i thought i would never ever finish. but i'm so glad i did it. (and also so glad it's done.)
i'm not a poetry girl, or at least i've always said i'm not, but i now love emily dickinson. even though the highs and lows of reading someone's collected works means taking the good with the bad and with a lot of mediocre.
but still. poems about summer and bees and flowers interspersed with death and grief, with liberal amounts of word definitions and goof-off roasts and very, very gay love poems...
what more could you ask for!
rating: 4
the background:
i have decided to become a genius.
to accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collected stories of various authors, reading + reviewing 1 story every day until i get bored / lose every single follower / am struck down by a vengeful deity.
i fully believe that when i get around to finishing this, i will transcend all known limits of humanity and finally become the most insufferable person in history.
but also, this is 700 pages' worth of poems - 1,775 of them, to be exact - that are not divided in any way. not sure how i'm going to take this project on, but i don't have any other options.
literally. i ran out of all my other short story collections.
let's see what happens, i guess.
PROJECT 1: THE COMPLETE STORIES BY FLANNERY O'CONNOR
PROJECT 2: HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
PROJECT 3: 18 BEST STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
PROJECT 4: THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES BY SHIRLEY JACKSON
PROJECT 5: HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH? BY N.K. JEMISIN
PROJECT 6: THE SHORT STORIES OF OSCAR WILDE
PROJECT 7: THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK BY ANDREW LANG
PROJECT 8: GRAND UNION: STORIES BY ZADIE SMITH
PROJECT 9: THE BEST OF ROALD DAHL
PROJECT 10: LOVE AND FREINDSHIP BY JANE AUSTEN
PROJECT 11: HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
PROJECT 12: BAD FEMINIST BY ROXANE GAY
PROJECT 12.5: DIFFICULT WOMEN BY ROXANE GAY
PROJECT 13: THE SHORT NOVELS OF JOHN STEINBECK
PROJECT 14: FIRST PERSON SINGULAR BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
PROJECT 15: THE ORIGINAL FOLK AND FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
PROJECT 16: A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN BY LUCIA BERLIN
PROJECT 17: SELECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK
PROJECT 18: HIGH LONESOME: SELECTED STORIES BY JOYCE CAROL OATES
PROJECT 19: THE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV
PROJECT 20: COLLECTED STORIES OF COLETTE
PROJECT 21: JABBERWOCKY AND OTHER NONSENSE: COLLECTED POEMS BY LEWIS CARROLL
PROJECT 22: COLLECTED STORIES BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
PROJECT 23: THE METAMORPHOSIS & OTHER STORIES BY FRANZ KAFKA
PROJECT 24: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
POEMS 1-50
if i read 50 poems a day, this will take me 36 days to finish.
there is no earthly way i will read 50 poems a day, but some of these are like 4 lines long, so it's not AS crazy as it sounds.
i would place considerable odds on the chances that i drop this down to 25 a day so fast it's like this never happened, but why not start off on a high note.
i'm not going to rate these together because i've grouped them arbitrarily, but i will put my favorite of each day and post it on my instagram story! i'm @emmareadstoomuch if you want to see em.
favorite: 41
POEMS 51-100
in many ways, this collection thus far is like a prank on me, because i keep thinking there are poems about sad girls or death or heartbreak and then in the last line they reveal themselves to be about sailing.
it's a good joke...a great joke even...
favorite: 57
POEMS 101-150
lotta roses and daisies happening here.
but that's good with me - i'm a girl who reads poetry and therefore i like flowers.
will take em any day over sh*t about ships.
also, will probably be taking a 6 day break from this, because i'm going on vacation and ain't no way i'm hauling an 800 page hardcover with me.
favorite: 111
POEMS 151-175
it was more like a 10 day break, to share my truth with you.
"A sailor's business is the shore! / A soldier's - balls! Who asketh more" lol.
cutting down to 25 poems, at least for now, due to sheer laziness and overbooked time!! (pun semi-intended.) my fav of this set is perfect for today, when i am returning from a sea- and river-filled vacation.
favorite: 162
POEMS 176-200
might stick around in this 25-a-day zone. way more sustainable. also cramming 50 emily dickinson works into one measly 24 hour period seems unlawful.
i'm not saying 190 is about hooking up with an ex but...i'm not NOT saying that.
favorite: 191
POEMS 201-225
in 215, emily asks an eternal question - "do they 'hoe'" in paradise?
favorite: 211
POEMS 226-250
get you a gf who will "harass God / Until he let you in!" to heaven. no capitalization on he, even. italicized threat for increased seriousness.
badass as hell.
favorite: 232 & 241
POEMS 251-275
wowww, hope is the thing with feathers day! all star lineup.
i like the dark stuff though. i'm edgy.
favorite: 255
POEMS 276-300
i do love that Nobody.
favorite: 288
POEMS 301-325
it is becoming clear to me that my edition has different numbers than others.
uh oh.
favorite: 301
POEMS 326-350
i think with this one i'm going to be realistic about the days. i'm not going to try to catch up. it takes however long it takes.
i mean, there's no hell like forcing yourself to read poetry when you don't feel like it.
favorite: 347
POEMS 351-375
you've heard of first is the worst, now get ready for...first is the best.
favorite: 351
POEMS 376-400
having a no-brain-cells day.
favorite: 392
POEMS 401-425
well, it's been...8 months?
i'm judging by the instagram story highlight i used to post my favorites in.
anyway, hi. i paused this installment, then i finished all my short story collections again, so here we are. stubbornly. rested and rejuvenated. ready and able to read 25 poems a day for the next 50 consecutive days, i pray.
favorite: 405
POEMS 426-450
today picking this up feels like an act of courage.
favorite: 447
POEMS 451-475
well, after an incredibly brave and impressive 2 days i paused this again to wait for the new year. which it now is. happy 2023!
biiiig death day.
favorite: 465
POEMS 476-500
i wish emily dickinson wrote novels. it's almost like she wasn't writing for a random 25 year old reader 150 years in the future.
favorite: 499
POEMS 501-525
choosing to accept that the days of this project will rarely if ever be consecutive.
i really enjoyed doing this today!! and not just because there was a sexy love poem in this 25. although that didn't hurt.
favorite: 506
POEMS 526-550
uh oh...had fun with this again today...with every passing year i grow more and more afraid i may find myself a Poetry Girl...
favorite: 536
POEMS 551-575
crisis averted. today's another couldn't emily dickinson just have written em dash-laden books instead day.
favorite: 561
POEMS 576-600
do you know the physical toll 25 poems a day can have on a person...
just kidding. i read these out loud to myself like i'm having a whimsical breakdown (which, maybe) and have a jolly old time.
favorite: 581, 584
POEMS 601-625
my New & Updated Poetry Strategy is that i only pick up this book when i feel like it, and not on a daily basis.
in other words it's been 5 days and that pause ended in another 2-favorite day. everything i do is right.
favorite: 613, 624
POEMS 626-650
just realized i totally forgot about the "share your daily favorite on your instagram story, emma, for the love of god" part of this project. does anyone care if i do that? if an arbitrary promise collapses in a digital forest, but no one is around to hear it, can i just move on like nothing happened?
anyway.
favorite: 629
POEMS 651-675
on my third consecutive day. is there anything i can't do.
favorite: 657, 661
POEMS 676-700
file four consecutive days under things i can't do.
found today's selection to be mercifully short but dreadfully meh.
favorite: 686
POEMS 701-725
i was going to say same as yesterday, but then we had a visit from a celebrity.
HAPPY BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH DAY TO ALL ACKNOWLEDGERS!
favorite: 712
POEMS 726-750
this day had poems about how being a wife sucks AND poems about how sexy the moon is. a win.
favorite: 732
POEMS 751-775
couldn't possibly guess how many days it's been since i picked this one up. spiritually a hundred years, literally probably less than a week.
not my best day.
favorite: 774
POEMS 776-800
can you believe we're not even halfway.
i can't. in fact legally i don't let myself think about it.
favorite: 777
POEMS 801-825
one of those I'm Making Up A Favorite days.
favorite: 821
POEMS 826-850
emily dickinson knew about trinket girls a million years before twitter even existed.
favorite: 841
POEMS 851-875
today's selection really aligning with my mood and general vibe today. (today's aesthetic is existential dread and a waning will to live.)
favorite: 853, 869
POEMS 876-900
feeling pretty obsessed with a poem about birds eating worms after rain right now.
favorite: 885
POEMS: 901-925
gotta love today's set. approximately 100 poems about death and hopelessness and then boom, my life is worth it if i've eased one bird's existence.
favorite: 913
POEMS: 926-950
lots of poems about being mentally ill today. also one about being best friends with the stars as a concept. big fan.
favorite: 932
POEMS: 951-975
i love this collection because there will be 40 gorgeous poems about life's biggest subjects - mortality, love, faith - and then tucked between them a perfect little capturing of the smallest moment. like this one about the feeling of walking alone down a street and seeing a slice of someone else's warm and crowded night as a door opens and shuts.
favorite: 953
POEMS: 976-1000
can you believe it - we've hit triple digits! now no one check how close i am to the character count versus how far we have left to go. i'm warning you now it doesn't add up and will only alarm the crowd.
favorite: 985
POEMS 1001-1025
a short day just when i needed her. including a 4-line poem that is literally nothing but a sick burn.
favorite: 1006
POEMS 1026-1050
some days it's like...do you guys even know how brave i'm being by picking this up. and then some days you get a poem directed to bees from a fly.
favorite: 1035
POEMS 1051-1075
i think the first and last poems may have been my favorites...which makes me concerned i just wasn't paying that much attention.
favorite: 1075
POEMS 1076-1100
reaching a new 100 level feels less special now that we're over 1000.
favorite: 1090
POEMS 1101-1125
the girl loves bees.
favorite: 1106, 1116
POEMS 1126-1150
the 3 brain cells i appear to remain in possession of struggled with this one today.
favorite: 1136, 1140
POEMS 1151-1175
you know that feeling when you're fighting off the beginning of a cold and you feel groggy and congested and bleh? it doesn't work well with poetry reading.
favorite: 1165
POEMS 1176-1200
another making up a favorite day.
favorite: 1198
POEMS 1201-1225
there is a poem about march today! and it is march right now! sign from the universe. i have no choice but to enjoy this set.
favorite: 1220
POEMS 1226-1250
emily, you saucy little minx...you knew i hadn't picked this book up in seemingly one or two centuries and you made today a back-to-back favorite day...
favorite: 1232, 1233
POEMS 1251-1275
fall poem fall poem fall poem!!!
favorite: 1271
POEMS 1276-1300
i love short novels. i love short stories. i love short poems. either i'm lazy or i have a predilection. or both.
favorite: 1287
POEMS 1301-1325
love poem to the month of march!!! spring poem i'm reading on the first full day of spring!!! crazy how this book was randomly assembled out of old papers and all of it was for me.
favorite: 310
POEMS 1326-1350
emily dickinson is an astrology girl reveal!!
favorite: 1338
POEMS 1351-1375
the rare I Can't Remember The Last Time I Picked This Up day x Making Up A Favorite day combo.
favorite: 1367
POEMS 1376-1400
leaning way too hard on a smallish poem about inexplicable joy and the corresponding desolation today, when i am like kinda sick and being super dramatic about it.
favorite: 1382
POEMS 1401-1450
it feels like lately i do one day per week of this project, so i'm doing a 50-poem day. to atone. and of course it was lovely and fun because the universe adores me.
favorite: 1420
POEMS 1451-1500
double day so nice i did it twice.
"The Booty and the Sorrow / Its Sweetness to have known"...lol.
favorite: 1465
POEMS 1501-1525
there is no joy quite like reading an emily dickinson spring poem on the first truly warm day of the season.
favorite: 1519
POEMS 1526-1550
see yesterday's note. i feel like if this collection was just 1700 stanzas of emily dickinson defining words and describing seasons, i'd be happy.
favorite: 1530
POEMS 1551-1575
a lovely little poem about a woman that hastily throws the word friend in at the end...i see you, emily.
favorite: 1568
POEMS 1576-1600
back to back short ones, one describing night as a gift and the other involving cake...bliss.
favorites: 1577, 1578
POEMS 1601-1625
bunch of pretty dawn ones today. not emily dickinson getting me fully back on board just before the end of this project!
favorite: 1618
POEMS 1626-1650
it's another make-up-a-favorite-at-the-literal-last-minute day, which is a long way of saying a monday.
favorite: 1650
POEMS 1651-1675
perfect little poem about occupied minds being like occupied houses...we're so back.
favorite: 1653
POEMS 1676-1700
no brain cell days are not conducive to this project. or is it vice versa? i don't know my mind is a mound of soggy cotton balls at this juncture.
favorite: 1682
POEMS 1701-1725
sapphic sapphic sapphic sapphic sapphic
favorite: 1722
POEMS 1726-1750
PENULTIMATE DAY. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. DO I JUST FINISH NOW?! I NEVER THOUGHT THIS TIME WOULD COME, I'M FREAKING OUT.
lovely little lines for this almost-goodbye: "Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell."
and a death of childhood poem...we're playing the classics now.
favorite: 1738
POEMS 1751-1775
let's finish this!
favorite: 1774
OVERALL
this project was absolutely ridiculous, and it took me 3 months, and more often than not i thought i would never ever finish. but i'm so glad i did it. (and also so glad it's done.)
i'm not a poetry girl, or at least i've always said i'm not, but i now love emily dickinson. even though the highs and lows of reading someone's collected works means taking the good with the bad and with a lot of mediocre.
but still. poems about summer and bees and flowers interspersed with death and grief, with liberal amounts of word definitions and goof-off roasts and very, very gay love poems...
what more could you ask for!
rating: 4
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
lighthearted
fast-paced
stumbling upon poems i have read months ago are now resonating differently feels so special
No colour in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone
Obsessed with the way she describes nature, lyrical and wondrous. Her poems on death are fascinating: it is just another part of nature, in the end. Even as she mythologises the process she never loses sight of the mundanity, and the beauty within that.
Collection of poems written by Emily Dickinson.
They are poems. Like most collections some touched me more than others did. She is worth a read.
They are poems. Like most collections some touched me more than others did. She is worth a read.
Dickinson is a boss. Proof that introverts can do big things, ya know?
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
She loves a “-“ but such beautiful and am haunting poetry
Seven-ish years of off and on reading finally brought me through the entire volume. She is my favorite poet by far, and there are gems sprinkled liberally throughout the 700 pages of text (well beyond the five or six you may encounter in high school).