A review by opinionhaver69
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

3.0

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