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elisabethjordan 's review for:
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
3.5
Loved this collection! I am so glad I picked up some more Emily Dickinson because other than a few poems here and there, I hadn’t read much of her work. Poetry always really inspires and calms me— always keeps me in a good perspective— and gets my creativity flowing for my own writing. This collection got me in that creative state. I was inspired to write some poems in Dickinson’s style which was very fun, and it allowed me to experiment and broaden myself which I deeply enjoyed.
There were definitely a good few gems in this collection which I will list specifically below for future reference. But before I do that, I just need to bring up Dickinson’s obsession with bees. There was a Bee Movie quantity of bees in her work, and while I didn’t mind and thought it was beneficial in setting the atmosphere for many poems, I did find the sheer volume of mentionings of the little creatures to be funny, and eventually, I may or may not have started drawing little bees in the margins every time bees came up. Suffice it to say, I now have a swarm of bees within my copy’s pages.
Here is a list of my favorite poems in this collection:
{SEC. TITLE
NUMERAL ASSIGNED TO POEM (page#)}
LIFE
XLIX (31)
XCIX (57)
CXXXVI (75)
NATURE
XIX (93)
XXI (95)
XXXIX (105)
LOVE
VII (155)
XII (157)
XX (164)
XXXI (171)
LIII (181)
TIME & ETERNITY
XVIII (195)
XIX (196)
XXII (198)
CXVII (247)
CXXVIII (252)
THE SINGLE HOUND
XXV (272)
CXXV (317)
Loved this collection! I am so glad I picked up some more Emily Dickinson because other than a few poems here and there, I hadn’t read much of her work. Poetry always really inspires and calms me— always keeps me in a good perspective— and gets my creativity flowing for my own writing. This collection got me in that creative state. I was inspired to write some poems in Dickinson’s style which was very fun, and it allowed me to experiment and broaden myself which I deeply enjoyed.
There were definitely a good few gems in this collection which I will list specifically below for future reference. But before I do that, I just need to bring up Dickinson’s obsession with bees. There was a Bee Movie quantity of bees in her work, and while I didn’t mind and thought it was beneficial in setting the atmosphere for many poems, I did find the sheer volume of mentionings of the little creatures to be funny, and eventually, I may or may not have started drawing little bees in the margins every time bees came up. Suffice it to say, I now have a swarm of bees within my copy’s pages.
Here is a list of my favorite poems in this collection:
{SEC. TITLE
NUMERAL ASSIGNED TO POEM (page#)}
LIFE
XLIX (31)
XCIX (57)
CXXXVI (75)
NATURE
XIX (93)
XXI (95)
XXXIX (105)
LOVE
VII (155)
XII (157)
XX (164)
XXXI (171)
LIII (181)
TIME & ETERNITY
XVIII (195)
XIX (196)
XXII (198)
CXVII (247)
CXXVIII (252)
THE SINGLE HOUND
XXV (272)
CXXV (317)