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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
I'm not a really experienced poem reader, but even I can tell that masterpieces are masterpieces.
Dickinson's poems are beautifully written and the themes that she chose to write (time, love, hate, nature, etc.) were all portrayed perfectly. She's like an artist using words as the paintbrush to create some really outstanding scenes. I also love the fact that everything she writes about are always from her life experiences so that there's a lot of substance in addition to the elegant appearance of her poems. Some poems are actually very philosophical (she talks of eternity quite frequently) which makes them thought provoking too.
In terms of form, I've noticed that she writes a lot of 4-line-stanza poems and that often the second and fourth line would rhyme. She's not particularly ambitious with her form but I still very much appreciate the ingenuity of the way she puts lines together.
Some excerpts that I love:
"I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity."
"Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The entering takes away."
Absolutely amazing.
Dickinson's poems are beautifully written and the themes that she chose to write (time, love, hate, nature, etc.) were all portrayed perfectly. She's like an artist using words as the paintbrush to create some really outstanding scenes. I also love the fact that everything she writes about are always from her life experiences so that there's a lot of substance in addition to the elegant appearance of her poems. Some poems are actually very philosophical (she talks of eternity quite frequently) which makes them thought provoking too.
In terms of form, I've noticed that she writes a lot of 4-line-stanza poems and that often the second and fourth line would rhyme. She's not particularly ambitious with her form but I still very much appreciate the ingenuity of the way she puts lines together.
Some excerpts that I love:
"I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity."
"Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The entering takes away."
Absolutely amazing.