A review by kamiga
Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson

3.0

2.5⭐️
I started reading this after watching the show “Dickinson” which I absolutely loved. I’m not a huge poetry person but the dark themes in Emily’s writing drew me in. I also found the glimpse into 19th century New England to be interesting.

95.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there’s a pair of us?
Don’t tell! they’d advertise- you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell ones name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!

She even referenced Charlotte Brontë which was a nice surprise. It’s crazy to imagine the Brontës and Emily alive at the same time but living across the world from each other.
53.
All overgrown by cunning moss,
All interspersed with weed,
The little cafe of “Currer Bell”
In quiet “Haworth” laid.

Gathered from many wanderings-
Gethsemane can tell
Thro’ what transporting anguish
She reached the Asphodel!

Soft fall the sounds of Eden
Upon her puzzled ear-
Oh what an afternoon for Heaven,
When “Brontë” entered there!